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Thanks in good part to the mystical imagination and grim determination of Irene Lewisohn, there has evolved in the past few years a synthetic art-form whereby great masterworks are given stage presentations for which they were never intended. With her sister Alice (now married and living in Paris), Irene Lewisohn started her experiments in the Neighborhood Playhouse, a small theatre in Manhattan's slums. She interested Conductor...
...Orchestra with whom she worked out scenarios to several symphonic works. They amounted, in essence, to informal ballets in which the dancing was of the free interpretative kind, full of exaggerated, supposedly primitive poses and vigorous prancing. Audiences have received them in a state of self-conscious hush. Irene Lewisohn and her stage versions of music appeared to have found highest recognition when Mrs. Elizabeth Sprague Coolidge invited her to give the opening program at the Festival of Chamber Music at the Library of Congress in Washington last week. Mrs. Coolidge's Chamber Music programs are usually above reproach...
Playwright Shakespeare gave Ludwig Lewisohn the idea. But not even Shakespeare could make much of a play out of Revamper Lewisohn's Shylock. For Lewisohn has romanticized Shylock's melodramatic figure, gentled him down into an unconvincing shadow of his former self. You learn that Antonio's pound of flesh was safe all the time. Shylock's "knife would not have gone very deep into the bosom of his adversary.'' He would only have nicked him, got him good & scared, then shown the Christian dog he knew as much as Portia about the quality of mercy...
...Author. Ludwig Lewisohn, fiery champion of his ego, is famed for his auto biographical novels. He once found him self in a $200,000 libel suit brought by his first wife ("Bosworth Crocker"), who thought she recognized herself in one of them (Mid-Channel). Author Lewisohn announced last fall he would write no more analytical novels. Short, stocky, pince-nezed, middleaged, he has a voice which is "deep, elaborate, studied." He has also written : Upstream, The Island Within, Mid-Channel, Stephen Escott...
...which made life unbearable for Pascin himself. Last week was another Pascin exhibition at Manhattan's Downtown Gallery. Socialites, reporters, art critics flocked to it. Standing sponsors were such people as smartchart Editor Frank Crowninshield, Art Critic Henry McBride, Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller Jr., Mr. & Mrs. Samuel Adolph Lewisohn. An elaborate illustrated catalog was prepared. The show was a decided success. Apart from the fact that the first Pascin exhibition contained some of his worst pictures, the second most of his best, between the two shows the artist himself suddenly and horribly committed suicide. To the general public...