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...said to have spent over four years writing House Divided, consulted 500 reference books and used up a quart of ink. Readers will find the result a brackish mixture of Northern blood and Southern guts, held in solution by a lively plot. House Divided lacks the nostalgia of MacKinlay Kantor's Long Remember, the flinty humor of Hervey Allen's Action at Aquila, the sexy folderol of Gone With the Wind. In sticking closer to the pedestrian facts of history, it is more convincing-if less exciting-than its predecessors...
...Rank) was awarded honors as the best production job of 1946; but a U.S. picture was the only one to receive more than one award. William Wyler's The Best Years of Our Lives (Goldwyn) was honored as the best story (by Robert E. Sherwood from a MacKinlay Kantor novel), and Myrna Loy was named the year's best actress for her work in the picture. Brussels' equivalent to Hollywood's Oscar, a bronze statuette of St. Michel, went to René Clair's French Le Silence Est d'Or (Man About Town), starring...
Gallerygoers noted Kantor's never-failing subtlety of color and texture, his sculpturesque use of form, but most of them preferred the more simply enjoyable Cape Cod sand dunes, big trees and haunted houses of previous Kantor phases...
...Kantor has had time for half a dozen such phases; he was born half a century ago, in Minsk, Russia. Young Kantor imagined the U.S. as a land of opportunity for his art, but when the hopeful 13-year-old stepped off the boat, Manhattan's teeming garment district swiftly swallowed him up. It took him seven years to get as far as art school. Since then he has gone all the way from pure abstractionism to meticulous realism (and most of the way back again). His theory: "Each painting should stand by itself, not only as to subject...
...Today Kantor is one of the most popular teachers at Manhattan's Cooper Union and also the Art Students League. What baffles his students is that, unlike their own, Kantor's perennial experiments are usually successful. "It isn't easy, you know," explains Artist Kantor shyly. "Painting is rather like having a love affair...