Word: leighs
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Fate of five other U.S. correspondents is not yet known. They are A.P.'s Robert St. John, U.P.'s Leon Kay, the New York Herald Tribune's Russell Hill, the New York Times's Ray Brock, and Leigh White of CBS and Overseas News Agency. When last heard of (at Cattaro, April 16), they were heading into the Adriatic in a rowboat, presumably bound for Greece...
That Hamilton Woman (United Artists). One of the spiciest scandals in British history occurred during the Napoleonic Wars: the romance of the great one-eyed, one-armed sea dog, Horatio, Lord Nelson (Laurence Olivier), and the frivolous Emma, Lady Hamilton (Vivien Leigh), wife of Britain's Minister to the Court of Naples. Ostensibly, this British-bred, Hollywood-made film tries to tell it in epic tones. Actually, with the subtlety of a sock on the jaw, it is more concerned with informing U. S. cinemaudiences of the parallel between Britain's struggle against Napoleonic tyranny and her current...
...anyone who left Gone With the Wind believing that Vivien Leigh was an accomplished actress, That Hamilton Woman will come as a nasty shock. While undemonstrative Husband Olivier mumbles his lines in his gullet or grimaces slightly to keep pace with his blind eye and scarred forehead. Miss Leigh changes the key completely by winking, pouting and fanning the air like a signalman. Her dramatic progress has left her only a gender's distance from Mickey Rooney. The picture provides the sort of lethargic Mother Goose history which does not make movies, just monumental boredom...
...Artist Leigh learned his nature firsthand, trekking up & down the Western deserts with his paints and brushes in his knapsack. In 1926 he went with the American Museum of Natural History's late ace taxidermist Carl Ethan Akeley on an expedition into East Africa to paint museum backdrops. Today, hale and high (6 ft. 2 in.) at 74, he lives comfortably in a trophy-laden Manhattan studio, helps his wife, Ethel Traphagen, collect costumes for the Traphagen School of Fashion, which she owns...
Crotchety Realist Leigh blames modern art on the Algerian War (1830-47), when the French aristocrats began drinking absinthe, and the "lower classes," with their vulgar ideas, began to dominate the art world. Says he: "It is not how a picture is painted that matters, it is what you paint. Some modern artists have sunk to imbecility, not pitiable imbecility but vicious imbecility." At his pet abomination, WPA art, he snorts: "The worst thing the Government could have done for the nation was to allow these thousands of dub painters to put those frightful abortions called murals all over...