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...With It? (Universal-International) is a cinemusical about a tent show. The show's supercarnival acts, which had a rich midway glamor on the Broadway stage, have only a cheap midway glare when filtered through the screen. But Song &-Danceman Donald O'Connor comes through brightly as a sort of low-glazed, hickory-cured Danny Kaye...
Should the U.S. help the states pay for public education? For ten years, off & on, Congress has talked about it-but has never done anything. Last week, with President Truman's new U.M.T. and draft proposals casting a somber glare over the debate, the Senate took up a federal-aid-to-education bill (S.472) again. This time the bill's backers brought up some new arguments...
...about like owls in the brown murk of academic painting; Manet's light-filled colors simply made them hoot. His subject matter, all agreed, was worse than vulgar. Manet had seen fit to invite common people off the street to pose for him, he imitated the impossible glare of sunshine, and he even dared to picture nudes in contemporary settings. Napoleon III himself pronounced Manet's Déjeuner sur I'Herbe (see cut) a threat to public morals. Public disgust was summed up in one word-a word delivered with the sneers reserved for "abstractionism" today...
Koerner's work, too, is theatrical. He illuminates almost every scene with the pitiless white glare of stage lighting-never sunlight or moonlight-and his actors move and speak with exaggerated force. These devices, skillfully employed, make Koerner's paintings more arresting than those of such established U.S. realists as Philip Evergood and Ben Shahn. But they are not enough to explain his disturbing power. Koerner's storytelling art is one of implication, and its very theatricalism serves to imply that the "real" world which man has made is equally a fabric of illusions...
Diabolist Corradetti, his red-rimmed eyes blinking in the glare of the stage lights, beamed. His faith in the Devil had been rewarded...