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...Blonde Gasconne (opposite), the public favorite at the Smith College Museum of Art. In this simple picture the pearly atmosphere is conveyed as only Corot could, and the girl seems almost a condensation of the cool sea air. She is an unforgettable presence, melancholy and mysterious as a peasant Mona Lisa. Corot started off strong. He was blessed with deep feeling for nature, instinctive taste and a large allowance from his family. At 29 he went to Italy and immediately started painting the best landscapes of his career. He outdid even his great French predecessors in Rome-Poussin and Claude...
...Boston head belonged to the Paris torso. Last week the results of Bothmer's artistic detective work were on view in the Boston Museum. Plaster casts of the body and head had been fitted together, forming a delicately detailed image of a firm-faced young king with a Mona Lisa smile, holding offerings for the gods. Amenhotep II, luckier than Humpty Dumpty, was all together again-at least in plaster-after some 3,000 years...
Then something happened to Weegee. He began wearing neckties. He went arty. He started experimenting with a strange lens he had developed that put four eyes into the Mona Lisa's face, two heads on the Statue of Liberty, and considerable additions on to Marilyn Monroe's naturally exaggerated figure. His former fans are disappointed in him. Reality is no longer enough. "Got tired of the old line," he says. "Changed...
...Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill they seldom get at home in Denmark...
Columnists were busy making a match between Bing Crosby, 48, and blonde, Cinemactress Mono (Dear Wife) Freeman, 26, first introduced to Hollywood by Producer Howard Hughes, who discovered her working as a model in Manhattan. Louella Parsons noted that Mona's mother "is taking shots and getting her passports so she can accompany Mona to Europe. There's a possible picture deal, and, of course, Bing Crosby," who sailed last week on the Queen Elisabeth. Broadway's Danton Walker reported that friends predicted a wedding "at St. Moritz, Switzerland, in December...