Word: looks
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Never Can Tell (by Bernard Shaw; produced by the Theatre Guild in association with Alfred Fischer) can't quite hide its late igth Century look or its early G.B.S. grin. A scrambly farce, it treats of modern-minded matrons separated from their husbands, children trying to track down their father, a penniless dentist wooing a would-be unromantic miss, a wise waiter whose son is a distinguished barrister. Shaw called You Never Can Tell a potboiler, and few-even of his admirers -would call it art. But though Shaw may seem to be writing down in it, actually...
...short, popular "low Mass" performed by one priest alone, in which the congregation took little part. A notion also arose that the Communion was only for those whose lives were almost sinless. As a result of these and other factors, says Dix, the Communion came to be looked upon more & more as a rite which the priesthood performed for the laity, rather than with it. The congregation came to look, rather than to participate. "Heave it higher, Sir Priest!" was the plea of the medieval layman when he could not see the Host at the consecration...
...their own forms of the Eucharist, he says, they "took as their model . . . not the primitive corporate action with its movement and singing, but the medieval Western development of low Mass-the 'simple said service' performed by a single minister, at which the people had only to look and listen and silently pray...
Millard Sheets's watercolors look a little like illustrations for a travel folder, but they have a dash about them, and unmistakable crowd-appeal. Hollywood's art lovers, from the Edward G. Robinsons to the Johnny Mercers, turned out in style one night last week to open Sheets's new show: views of Mexican mountains and market places whipped up from sketches he had made on a three-week tour in January. Highballs in hand (it was that kind of opening), the stars rubbed elbows with local critics and museum directors...
...Sheets is one of the most versatile and successful of U.S. artists; he seems more like a bland, blond bond salesman. Sheets is one painter who can look his patrons in the eye and remark, without a deprecatory smile, "I'm no genius...