Word: joans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Combining a fine collection of both men's work with equally excellent representatives of two other notable Spanish moderns, Joan Miro and Juan Gris, the present exhibition at Boston's Institute of Modern Art is not only this season's most colorful and significant showing but also one which will attract many who are not regular gallery-goers...
Disclaiming abstractionism and surrealism alike, Joan Miro paints gaily-colored fantasies, filled with cavorting, infectiously-jovial organisms, figures in a symbolism which is both intensely personal and completely charming. As a young man, Miro was influenced by the Dadaists, and he has been frequently accepted as a surrealist, although the simplicity and individuality of his idiom far transcends surrealism...
...Starring Joan Bennett, as a dissolute and hard-bitten flapper, Edward G. Robinson as a weak little cashier who likes to paint pictures, and Dan Duryea, as a fip, unmoral pug, "Scarlet Street" is cynically matter-of-fact, more like a Dostoevski novel than a Hollywood bon-bon, honest to a fault...
Married. Brian Aherne, 43, flamboyant British-born stage & screen actor, lately ETO-touring in a melodramatized Barretts of Wimpole Street; and Eleanor de Liagre Labrot, 33, socialite sister of Broadway Producer Alfred de Liagre Jr.; both for the second time (his first: Joan Fontaine); at Sneden Landing...
...veteran director of German and French films-mostly comedies and musicals-which starred such notables as Emil Jannings, Maurice Chevalier, Harry Baur. But West Coast studios weren't interested. The break came a couple of years ago when he made Phantom Lady with Producer Joan Harrison (TIME, Feb. 28, 1944), followed up with The Suspect and Uncle Harry...