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...appeared in Georgia-grasshopper-eating.* Across the state, college students and other daredevils gulped them down alive for $1.50 to $20 a hopper. Said one girl: "It tickled slightly when it went down and was sort of scratchy." Said a male eater: "Something like live grass...
Leave It to the Girls (Fri. 8:30 p.m., Mutual). Cinemactor Turhan Bey v. such career women as Hedda Hopper and Constance Bennett. Moderator: Rudy Vallee...
...Edward Hopper's Manhattan canvases all looked as if they had been painted on a Sunday morning when few were up yet or else late at night. The few figures he did introduce looked stiff and lonely; they were transients, put there to emphasize the frozen rigor of the streets and buildings Hopper loves. At 66, in his deceptively simple pictures, he has done more than any other painter to define the beauty of Manhattan's steel, brick and brownstone shell...
Like a mail-order catalogue, the show had a little of everything-from the sharp literalness of an Edward Hopper Civil War scene, to a tangled, crisscross abstraction by Mark Tobey. There were the sanitary surfaces of Georgia O'Keeffe, the fluid mists of John Marin, a pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger...
...Edward Hopper...