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...taunt that Malaya would not be truly independent until it had control of the country's defense and security forces, Prince Abdul Rahman asked the British for full independence. The urgency of the Malayan situation led the British to take the risk. In a cream and-gilt room of London's Lancaster House, Chief Minister Rahman sat down with British Colonial Secretary Alan Lennox-Boyd and signed an agreement which will give Malaya complete internal self-government, including control of the police and defense forces, in 18 months...
Kismet is an effective honey-coated sleeping pill, but as entertainment it's about as thrilling as an old circus poster. Based on the Broadway musical of a couple of seasons ago, the film has one claim to fame--its sets support more gilt paint per square foot than those of any other picture of 1955. But as soon as almost any one of the actors opens his mouth, the Cinemascoped splendor of Hollywood-Oriental interiors cannot hide the sad thruth that sets are just not a very satisfactory substitute for either comedy or music...
Artistic taste today is likely to dismiss Painter John Singer Sargent as briskly as it does that whole great clutter of heavy gilt frames, dusty plush draperies and ornate grandeurs that marked his vanished era. It is only 30 years since Sargent died, half a century since the Edwardian peak of his fame; yet the interval can hardly be measured by years alone. Just how far and fast fashions have changed since Sargent's day could best be seen this week at Boston's Museum of Fine Arts, celebrating the centennial of the painter's birth with...
Coming in delegations, in organized droves, from China, Mongolia, North Korea and North Viet Nam, India, Burma and Afghanistan, these visitors, many of whom have never seen a large city before, are awesomely impressed by Moscow, by the gilt and the grandiosity, and see no incongruity in the joylessness of Muscovites. At the red granite tomb of Lenin and Stalin in Red Square, day after day they queue behind their guides waiting for the moment to file silently past the embalmed Communist leaders, their wax en faces still faintly saturnine. Here, as at the Bolshoi, the Western visitor, brought quickly...
...painting of Dillinger's death and sketches of the Jelke trial for LIFE, For some of his best material he went to the Bowery ("You can't find any thing better to draw") and burlesque houses ("Extremely pictorial. You get a woman in the spotlight, the gilt archi tecture of the place, plenty of human ity"). Coney Island fascinated him: "Crowds of people in all directions, in all positions, without clothing, moving - like the great compositions of Michelangelo and Rubens. I failed to find anything like it in Europe...