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Andre Breton and Paul Eluard, the exhibition gave ample evidence of the continuing fertility of such Surrealists as Photographer Man Ray, Sculptor Hans Arp. Painters Max Ernst, Andre Masson, Rene Magritte, Yves Tanguy, and especially Salvador Dali. That dapper master of mystification was represented not only by the flivver group at the entrance but by paintings ranging from Le grand masturbateur (1929)10 Telephone aphrodisiaque...
...responded to it. Contributors of the 48 paintings included Picasso, with his nightmarish Dreams & Lies of Franco (TIME, Dec. 27); Salvador Dali, with The Specter of Sex Appeal, in which a nai've little boy regards an enormous figure, half-flesh, half-bone, straddling an idyllic background; Andre Masson, with Dilettantes of Corpses, showing gowned ecclesiastics leaving a corpsy battlefield with expressions of pious approval; Frans Masereel, with News event, a horror panorama of agonized soldiers, screaming mobs and weeping women, and in the lower right-hand corner a well-dressed citizen reading a newspaper and smoking a cigar...
...also mystic lozenges, snaky lines and blobs which apparently are respectively symbols for mountain, rain and root. For briskness of conception, facility of line, the Mtoko paintings struck critics as being plastics of considerable honest merit in themselves. A small show of advanced abstractionists like Klee, Miro, Arp and Masson was added to the exhibit by Director Barr to show that some living painters are not very distant in spirit from the Mtoko masters...
Died. Thomas L. (Tom) Masson, 68, humorist, editor (1893-1922) of Life, associate editor of Saturday Evening Post (1922-30); after a long illness; in Glen Ridge...
...Hastily Gates shoved a lever, landed with a bang. On the strength of that maiden flight, Gates booked himself for a number of engagements as an aviator. Perhaps fortunately, a taxicab accident put him on crutches and he was forced to seek a substitute. He found Didier Masson. Paulhan's mechanic. Thus Gates became a showman, a role to which he took naturally. In the next 20 years he logged only 600 hr. at the controls...