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Died. Dr. Arthur E. Hertzler, 76, homespun country doctor and surgeon, author of the autobiographical bestseller, The Horse and Buggy Doctor; of uremia; in Halstead, Kans...
...certainly worth the price as a 1) folksy, firsthand account of the making of the 46th state and the unmaking of one of America's last big frontiers; the description, told with disarming simplicity, of Murray's rise from boy cotton picker to governor; 2) for a homespun insistence on the dignity of the individual man, the value of personal enterprise and the danger of increasing Government power; 3) the Murray version of Oklahoma's troubled politics. The three volumes are also a fabulous item of Americana...
...Hollywood's best character actors, brogueish Barry (Going My Way) Fitzgerald, took to NBC's air last week on his first program. The new weekly series (His Honor, the Barber, Tues. 7:30-8 p.m., E.S.T.) he appeared in was fashioned of homespun, with an expensive tailor's touch. The character he plays is sure fire for cornfed philosophizing: a small-town judge who doubles in hair-clipping. The resemblance between this new series and another well-wearing job cut to the same cloth, radio's 13-year-old One Man's Family...
Kiss and Tell is especially notable for the work of three young people who combine the homespun qualities of the kid next door with the zany hilarity of the Marx Brothers. One is Darryl Hickman, who plays the omnipresent Pringle moppet. Another is the gawky Courtland, a deadpan, loose-jointed adolescent who can get a laugh by just saying: "Holy cow!" But the most expert of all is Shirley Temple herself, now a first-rate comedienne and a very attractive young lady. While spending her early teens in comparative obscurity, Shirley forgot none of the tricks that once made...
Hitler's taste in art (a big batch of samples has reached the U.S.) was despised by critics, but it was embarrassingly like the taste of the U.S. public. He admired the cloying cleanliness of calendar pictures and the photographic homespun (characteristic of Saturday Evening Post covers), contemned "modern" art. (His taste got no further than 1870.) In sculpture, he went for ferocious eagles and muscular nudes which lacked the serenity of their Greek models. He thought buildings should be monumental in the neo-Roman postoffice style, but more severely simple than the U.S. variety...