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Last week incorrigibly paint-minded Oldster Souchon finished his 500th canvas. "I must hurry up," said he, "because I'm living now on the velvet of my life." Like many another Souchon, No. 500 depicted a tropically lush imaginary scene, in which flat, doll-like figures galloped and swayed through a high-pitched bedlam of clangorous color. When the last brush strokes had dried, he carefully stored it away in his files of similarly exuberant Souchons: Van Gogh-like pictures of hot, shadowless Louisiana cornfields, quaint, warm-colored, old-worldly interiors, and fanciful, childlike coloristic riots like The Farm...
...first pictures, done in what he calls "Brown-gravy classical" style, were conventional, imitative, trite. In 1935 an exhibition of them brought a royal roasting from New Orleans critics. So Painter Souchon changed his style. Turning his back on all the art-school rules, Oldster Souchon picked up his brightest paint tubes, let himself go. Before he knew it, he got so involved in color that his son and assistant, Dr. Edmond Souchon, had to take over most of his practice...
Greatest living sculptor, by common consent of the artistic world, is grey-bearded Aristide Maillol, who next week celebrates his 80th birthday in the little fishing village of Banyuls, in southern France. In spite of war, little Banyuls will give this spry oldster his usual birthday party. In Manhattan, his birthday is being celebrated by an exhibition of his sculpture at the Buchholz Gallery...
...pink stucco Banyuls house where he was born, taking his models from among the neighboring peasant women, ringing a thousand changes in plaster, stone and terracotta on the one theme that interests him in life: the curving grace of women's bodies. At home, spry Bohemian Oldster Maillol has his troubles. His sister-in-law, who has a tremor in her hands, is continually dropping his best casts on the floor and breaking them. His wife, a monumental peasant woman whom he married 46 years ago when she was a perfect model, now glowers jealously over every younger model...
Spring Again tells of a testy oldster (well played by Movie Oldster C. Aubrey Smith) who idolizes the memory of his father, a great Civil War general; and of the oldster's wife who, sick to death of the family hero, makes irreverent but remunerative copy of him in a radio serial. But this comedy idea is too slight. It takes livelier things, like the brash, terrible-mannered Hollywood magnate (played for all he's worth by Joseph Buloff) who finally barges in, to pile up the laughs...