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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...dozen learned professors sitting trembling on the wet trouser leg of facts. . . . Oh-and he must be a bachelor. Then we shall get the women. . . ." They study the man at the other table, then call out to him: "HITLER! HITLER! . . ." Such was the opening this week of a new propaganda serial staged by British Broadcasting Corp. Its name: The Shadow of the Swastika. Its story: the careers of the Nazi bully boys from beer hall to the rape of Poland...
...problems is persuading people that it is not a relief project. Allotted 1% of the appropriation for each new Federal building, it has adorned 553 of them with painting and sculpture at a cost of $841,000, is now decorating some 400 others. No longer is art restricted to the biggest buildings. Thanks to Government murals, many a small-town post office and courthouse is gay as Joseph's coat...
...Birth of Venus, Mantegna's St. George, Raphael's Madonna and the Chair. Despite official denials, it is fairly obvious that Italy's masterpieces will tour the U. S. until World War II blows over. In explaining why the show was given to Chicago rather than New York City, suave Prince Colonna observed that the latter was "too near...
...When the New Deal took over Washington, the great limestone & marble building which now houses the Post Office Department was nearing completion. Its architects wanted its walls decorated with the usual classical allegory. A special adviser to the State and Treasury Departments named Edward Bruce objected. A capable Manhattan lawyer who retired in 1922 to become a capable artist, he stormed: "I don't want any pictures of ladies in cheesecloth clutching letters and postcards to go into that building...
...attraction at the Corcoran show were 48 prizewinners of the latest SFA competition, picked from 1,470 color sketches submitted anonymously to a jury of artists. Each of these will be painted as a post-office mural in a different State. Outstanding are Paul Sample's angular New England landscape (Westerly, R. I.), Charles W. Thwaites' wheat harvesters (Chilton, Wis.), William Calfee's fishermen drawing up their nets at dawn (Phoebus, Va.). Common denominator of the 48 is an attempt to say something definite about the U. S., past or present. Most interesting of the historical designs...