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...pasteboard street scene by Stuart Davis. A few canvases with less familiar trademarks made gallery-goers look twice: Joe Jones's "Departure" from a grim and desolate wasteland; Henry Koerner's tired old couple, huddled in a cart, gazing numbly at the ruin about them; Theodore Lux Feininger's old-fashioned engines, squatting eerily on old-fashioned tracks, like ghosts in the night...
Some wondered if Luckman was blowing up an impressive but fragile soap bubble. So far the figures have proved otherwise. In two years, he hiked both sales & profits at Lever Bros, by more than 40% (a $20 million net on $350 million gross). Luckman claims that Lux, which had dropped to third place in the toilet soap field, is No. 1 again. So, says he, are Lever's Rinso and Lux Flakes. In the first quarter of 1948, when U.S. soap shipments slumped 17%, Luckman managed to boost...
...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). Alida Valli in Spellbound...
...days playing with the Chicago Ail-Americans and his nights playing piano in the city's brass-spittooned bars, sometimes for drinks, sometimes for money. Gradually, he evolved his rolling bass, and taught what he knew to two young friends. Soon fans were flocking to hear Meade Lux Lewis and Albert Ammons play. But while they made boogie famous, Jimmy remained behind in his two-room flat which shuddered when the trains went...
...Lux Radio Theater (Mon. 9 p.m., CBS). A good newcomer among the Christmas fantasies: Miracle on 34th Street, with Edmund Gwenn...