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...World War I, a young French stretcher-bearer got to thinking about life and art. People who wage war, he reasoned, are messy inside and out, but the precise, blankly implacable machines they kill with have a brutal beauty. Ever since then, Fernand Léger (rhymes with beige hay) has been painting flat, bright-colored pictures which look as smoothly efficient, and as difficult to comprehend, as the instrument panel...
Priced at about $2.50 per square inch of canvas (from $350 to $6,000), Léger's solidly meshed combinations of keys, wheels, metallic leaves and tubular women sell well to people who like to take their machine-age art neat. Mostly he confines himself to blacks, greys, and eye-stopping poster reds and yellows. Says he: "Nowadays a work of art must bear comparison with any manufactured object. The artistic picture is false and out of date...
...ger, who looks like a melancholy mechanic, recently returned to Paris after five war years in Manhattan. He works in a cold, dreary atelier on rue Notre-Dame-des-Champs, warns visitors to "please keep your hat on, otherwise you will catch cold." One of Léger's happiest memories of the U.S. is the Ringling Bros, circus. Last year he painted two pictures of it which had all the power, but not the heavy complexity, of his usual stuff. They so impressed a Manhattan dealer that he decided to build a show of U.S. artists around them...
...Tsingtao has good claims to being the fastest growing city in China. In 1898, when the Ger mans grabbed it, it was an insignificant fishing village; today its 800,000 population is well housed in structures which sprawl over the hills above the best natural harbor in China. Scenically it is beautiful. Architecturally it is wholly un inspiring: late igth Century German colonial, plus nondescript modern Japanese and Chinese...
...favorable and the unfavorable testimony, the Marshal showed the same stoic indifference. But two witnesses jolted the old man out of his apathy. Into a booing, hissing court, under heavy escort, came two of France's most hated men : suave Count Fernand de Brinon, former Vichy ambassador to Ger man-occupied Paris, and defiant Joseph Darnand, once head of Vichy's hated militia. The court had called them despite the refusal of Prosecutor Andrá Mornet to hear the evidence of "a crook and a gunman...