Word: modernizing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...brilliant if febrile artist, Siqueiros has the distinction of having discovered the modern paint gun as an artistic implement. In 1923, when Pontiac, Mich, produced the first automobile (an Oakland) ever finished by being sprayed with quick-drying lacquer, the spray gun took its place among the garage man's favorite toys. Always alert to industry, Artist Siqueiros considered it more than a toy, urged its use for murals. Neither Siqueiros himself nor other muralists have actually done much with it. But last week in Manhattan two trigger men appeared with demonstrations of what a spray...
...most people, Greek and Roman drama is something laid away in mothballs. Yet when, with modern tailoring, it is taken out and worn, most people admire it. When Broadway roared last season at Jean Giraudoux's Amphitryon 38, it was really patting some forgotten Greek dramatist on the back for his Amphitryon 1. When Broadway flocked to O'Neill's Mourning Becomes Electra, it was saluting Aeschylus' Oresteia with a Down-East accent. And given practically straight, Aristophanes' lewd, witty Lysistrata proved a Broadway...
Birthday. Charles Chaplin, cinemactor. Age: 50. Greetings: from 37 Russian cinema directors, who cabled Mr. Chaplin their appreciation especially of his films Modern Times and City Lights...
...Poet W. H. Auden contributing to its commentary, The Londoners contains no boosts for the gas company but devotes all its footage to London, before and after L. C. C. days. Its staging of Dickens' day is more stagey than Hollywood's, but in its prying around modern London it uncovers much straight, unsugared stuff. It explores sagging flats, unkempt streets, records the pallor and pinch of slumdwellers' faces. The commentary: "Democracy means faith in the ordinary man and woman, in the decency of average human nature. Here then in London build the city of the free...
...this phonograph records shattered over heads, beer cans galore, a bottle of potent Yukon "Cutchaw," and you have, as "The Puritan's Progress" had, material for any number of Harvard House plays. It is profane, original, and as modern as the Daily Record, in whose columns it might well run as a serial story. Which is just about what a good House play ought...