Word: marcs
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...series of pointed questions. Matador of this intellectual bull session is sharp-witted Clifton Fadiman, book reviewer for The New Yorker. Permanent bulls have been Franklin Pierce ("F. P. A.") Adams and the New York Times'?, amazingly broadly informed Sportswriter John Kieran. Paul de Kruif, Stuart Chase, Marc Connelly, John Gunther, Alice Duer Miller have been among the weekly panel of guests. Matador Fadiman's banderillas are trick questions selected from some 60.000 sent in every week by listeners (reversing the usual procedure of experts questioning audience...
...Kollwitz reached her 71st birthday as the show opened, remained the best German woman artist. Also shown was the work of mild, good-natured Max Liebermann, who died three years ago after his work was banned, not because it was abstract, but because he was Jewish. Franz Marc, represented by his famed Blue Horse, considered by many a critic the most brilliant of German moderns, was killed at Verdun in 1916, not before he had turned out vivid abstractions that run counter to Hitler's esthetic creed. But the casualties of war and poverty were dwarfed by the exiles...
...Bouquets (by Eleanor & Herbert Farjeon; produced by Marc Connelly in association with Bela Blau) is a mannerly, mock-genteel operetta of Victorian days which delighted Londoners for almost nine months, will not delight the U. S. so long. It does a fairly good job of trying to eat its cake and have it too: makes gay, simpering fun of itself while it strives after a light-as-thistledown charm. a snows-of-yesteryear nostalgia. Its lyrics are mock and merry-andrew, its tunes (out of such Victorian composers as Offenbach, Balfe and Gounod) softly glide and sway, recalling gaslit ballrooms...
Manhattan's Theatre Arts Committee, composed of such Broadwayites as Robert Benchley, Jed Harris, Lillian Hellman, Marc Blitzstein, Orson Welles, is not friendly to fascism. On three fronts- theatre, cinema, radio-it has been making anti-fascist lunges for all it is worth. The committee's latest enterprise is TAC, a midnight cabaret presented on Mondays at Manhattan's weatherbeaten Chez Firehouse. In a free-&-easy atmosphere of cigarets and drinks, audiences can watch a revue modeled after Pins and Needles and possessing much of its muscular merit...
...which the Congress held along with its Carnegie Hall session last December, last week's show emphasized quality. Sculptor William Zorach's Football Player, a lineman relaxed on his haunches, impressed critics as one of the few successful handlings to date of that oddly difficult subject. Artist Marc Perper's Poverty was an unusually solid work of imagination. On the doctrinal side, Stuart Davis contributed a hopeful catalogue note on Democracy...