Word: manhattan
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...absorbed in the U. S. scene is Artist Sloan that he has never left its boundaries. He and his miniature wife Dolly ("the little woman who has been my right hand man") spend their winters in Manhattan, their summers in New Mexico. Liked by everyone are Artist Sloan's portrayals of city life with its socks down: lean cats scavenging in a snowy back yard, a dust storm on Fifth Avenue, scrubwomen in a library, girls on a roof drying their hair, men lined up at a bar. Less liked are the strange, bright-colored nudes, hatched and crosshatched...
John Sloan's place in contemporary art is so thoroughly accepted that he is in danger of being taken for granted. Gallery-goers find it hard to realize that his atmospheric, human scenes of pre-War-I Manhattan were damned as paintings of "The Ashcan School" when his group of realists held their first show in 1908. Last week he summed himself up: "I never thought of one of my good pictures as art while painting it. Whether it was art or not, it was what I wanted to do. . . . I am grateful to have lived this long...
...year 5700* brought something new-a woman in the pulpit. Helen Hadassah Levinthal, comely in academic gown and four-pointed choir-singer's cap, preached at the three big holiday services, as near to being a rabbi as a female might be. Last summer, at Manhattan's Jewish Institute of Religion, she was the first woman anywhere to pass a course of studies for the rabbinate...
...maternity ward. Vainly trying to stave off this inevitable ending, they tossed in trim Noel Van Ness (Danish-born Cinemactress Osa Massen), also blown in from Bali and quite tropical too about Burnett. When that fails, the story just starts running around in circles, from Nassau to Bali to Manhattan. Hero MacMurray is like Poet Kenneth Fearing's hero: wow he woos her, zowie he kisses her, wham he MacMurrays her. Fans fagged out with so much traveling take the producers' word for it that the happy couple have enough energy left to make another trip to Bali...
Died. George Jean ("Big Frenchy") De Mange, 47, cagey onetime hoodlum, highjacker and bootlegger, latterly a millionaire Broadway restaurateur (The Club Argonaut, Park Avenue. Silver Slipper); of a heart attack; in Manhattan. As a Hudson Duster, Big Frenchy early opposed British-born Owen ("Owney") Madden's Gophers, later joined Owney in the liquor racket. In 1931 Owney scraped up $35,000 to ransom Big Frenchy when itchy-fingered Vincent Coll kidnapped him and threatened his life. Last week Owney was chief mourner at Big Frenchy's funeral, complete with six cars dripping with flowers...