Word: nudes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Kiesler, most popular cinema shown at the International Film Exposition in Venice year ago (TIME, Aug. 27). In ten reels containing only 300 words it tells the story of an unhappy bride's enthusiastic responses to a strange young man who meets her when she is enjoying a nude swim, seduces her in a nearby cabin. Extase, brought to the U. S. last November, was excluded under the Tariff Act by Secretary of the Treasury Morgenthau after Mrs. Morgenthau had joined Government officials in inspecting it at a private showing (TIME, Jan. 14). Last week's trial...
From beneath a $1,000 painting of Venice belonging to American Radiator & Standard Sanitary Corp.'s Board Chairman Clarence Mott Woolley, a Manhattan restorer scratched out about one-third of a nude girl with red roses in her blonde hair, placed the original painting in the early 16th Century, thought it might be the work of an old master. Commented Mr. Woolley: "I think he's unduly excited about it. When I saw him last he thought it was a Michelangelo...
...Tramp Abroad he calls this nude "the foulest, the vilest, the obscenest picture the world possesses. ... It isn't that she is naked and stretched out on a bed-no, it is the attitude of one of her arms and hand. If I ventured to describe that attitude, there would be a fine howl. ... I saw young girls stealing furtive glances at her; I saw young men gaze long and absorbedly at her; I saw aged, infirm men hang upon her charms with a pathetic interest...
TIME 1) doubts that any of its juvenile readers will be harmed by a nude painting, 2) takes for its standards of newsworthiness those of intelligent adults...
Sculpture: Gifford MacGregor Proctor, 23, son of able Sculptor Alexander Phimister Proctor. He won with a workmanlike and pretentious sculpture of two nude infantrymen crumpling, entitled We Arc the Dead...