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Most people can see the oomph, but not much else. Those who think they see more than that rank Miro among the top half-dozen living painters. The New York Sun's Critic Henry McBride-a longtime Miro enthusiast-last week said that Miro now "occupies the position of favorite with those-connoisseurs who insist that they really are connoisseurs." But, he conceded, "those somewhat stuffy people who do not respond to abstract art will fear that the connoisseurs are trying to put something over on them, and they will resent...
...York Sun's Critic Henry McBride came away from last week's show convinced that Homer "is our best man, the one who puts most into pictures of that which Americans have got out of life . . . believe me it is a show. Attendance at it should be made compulsory by law. It would strengthen the country...
Wednesday evening some of us listened to Miss Von Lieben, a student at the University of Vienna, describe sincerely and without flourishes just what amount of food students in Vienna had to live on, elsewhere had meant to them. But the Mary Margaret McBride background to this program, furnished by the other participants, was enough to cause some quick dial-twisting to another station...
...connoisseur who bought the best colored block prints for a few pennies each, as Americans of the day bought Currier & Ives. Ukiyoye, like the Currier & Ives, were mostly genre scenes and tourist views, but the similarity ended there. Glowed the New York Sun's scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the Met's collection: "It is difficult to think of any other people in any other age who maintained so high a standard in 'popular...
Every weekday for the past 12½ years Mary Margaret McBride has brought to the air 45 minutes of what she calls "a good radio voice-the kind that pushes itself up against you." For the first 35 minutes she titters through an interview with a celebrity. In the last ten she really goes into her act-mugging through commercials for 13 sponsors (who pay her about $100,000 a year...