Word: humorous
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Born in Manhattan, Artist Evergood had his schooling at Cambridge University and London's famous Slade School. He is a hulking man of 36 with wide, intolerant brown eyes, childish brown hair and a hint of mustache. A strong draftsman with a rough sense of pictorial humor, Artist Evergood has been getting stronger and rougher right along. Last year his Art on the Beach caused fist fights in Australia where it was shown in an Evergood exhibition. Later it was purchased by Melbourne's National Gallery...
...face is a lamentable part of her body. When he paints down-&-outers in a hobo "jungle" he distorts them to get an effect equivalent to the ugliness he feels. In last week's show of 22 paintings were several in Evergood's vein of wild, clownish humor. Sunday in Astoria and Recreation, big canvasses composed in bright, crude colors, showed city workers reveling on their day off. Artist Evergood's distaste for rich playgirls was expressed in Beauty...
With "Nothing Sacred" and "Damsel in Distress" the University has a splendid double bill--one that is funny from start to finish. There is every sort of humor from the insane cracks of Gracie Allen to the superb clowning of Frederic March and Carole Lombard; even Fred Astaire's dances are done in a funny...
...Damsel in Distress" shows Fred Astaire taking his part as a romantic song and dance man far less seriously than usual. Burns and Allen are their own ridiculous selves--funny at times, silly at others. Joan Fontaine, Mr. Astaire's leading lady, takes no part in the humor but is a refreshing change from the usual Ginger Rogers...
...aspect of the release appealed to the humor-loving Viennese: The Schuschnigg-Hitler agreement had required speedy action and since there was no time for making distinctions-730 imprisoned Communists, whose views are as distasteful to Hitler as to Schuschnigg and Miklas, were released along with Nazis...