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...pulsations that he feels as though he must collapse into himself and plunge down the abyss in which burns that unattainable, dazzling blue light. But then, in a tone of limitless melancholy, like the meaning of the wind on a rainy autumn night around the eaves of a high garret, a far-off church clock resounds. Again the throbbing abruptly falters, again the imaginary pressure is relieved, and then once more the night resumes its monotonous chant...
...which serves to kill illusion is the presence of human beings." Come of Age (by Clemence Dane; music by Richard Addinsell; Delos Chappell, producer). Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770) was the most remarkable child prodigy in the history of literature. Hungry and humiliated, he took arsenic in his bleak London garret, died before he was 18. Many a later poet lamented that Chatterton lived no longer for letters. Come of Age would have it a sadder thing still that he lived no longer for himself. Clemence Dane has clothed this fragile, moving phantasy in verse sometimes remindful of the brassy couplets...
While Kansas City was last week ceremoniously installing one of the most important U. S. collections of old masters in a marble palace Manhattan critics were traipsing down to a dingy garret on slummy 14th Street to look at the most important modern paintings of the year. The route was obscure: past a cut rate drugstore, a toy shop and a haberdashery to a grimy doorway labeled: NEW WORKERS SCHOOL; up a narrow steep staircase straight to the top floor; through the bare offices of New York's Communist Opposition headquarters, to an oblong lecture room. There from door...
...dropped. What Artist Rivera made instead was a cartoon strip, a panorama of civilization in the U. S. as seen through Communist eyes from the landing of the Pilgrims and the liquidation of the Indians to NRA and the farm strike. The New Workers' tenure of the garret being none too permanent, the metal lath and plaster panels of each fresco, weighing up to 350 lb., were made removable...
Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was a Dutch parson's son. An unattractive, awkward, violent young man, he wanted to go into the Church, but was too modest. Instead he carried with him, first into the polite world of the art business, then into garrets, brothels and studios, the wild religious longings that never left him. His only friend was his younger brother Theo. Together, before they went out into the world, they swore "to strive all their lives only for good." Vincent's family was connected with the Dutch branch of Goupil et Cie., famous Paris...