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...dominant position in Manhattan's art world. Painter Ernest is the better known. He is well represented in many important collections, figures regularly in exhibitions, teaches painting to hand-picked students. Last week blond, bushy-mustached Brother Paul gave his first one-man show of sculpture and outgrew the title of "Ernest Fiene's Younger Brother" as completely as Stephen Vincent Benét outgrew ''William Rose Benét's Younger Brother" with the publication of John Brown's Body. In the middle of a show room of portrait heads and animal studies...
...Vice President Emanuel Cohen, Katz's man, the job of drawing up an analysis of studio operating problems. Cohen, an expert in short cinema subjects and news reels, executed an analysis upon which the company may now base an argument in court that Jesse Lasky's job outgrew...
Less widely known is the early history of Primo Carnera. Born in Sequal, near Venice, oldest son of a mosaic worker, he quickly outgrew an apprenticeship to his father, worked in a cement factory at Nantes where he applied for French citizenship. Discharged from the factory, he joined an itinerant carnival, improved his muscles by wrestling with third-rate professionals, yokels in French villages. When the carnival disbanded, Monster Carnera bloated to 285 Ib. He was observed by a French pugilist, Paul Journée, who made friends with Carnera, telegraphed his onetime manager, Leon See, about the discovery. Manager...
...heirs of whom he spoke was middle-aged Bertha A. Stott. whose tempestuous outbursts did not subside as she outgrew tempestuous youth. When Bertha Stott, her brother David and two sisters sued another sister and two other brothers for receivership of Stott Realty Co., Judge Ferguson again had to deal with untractable witnesses. During the case David Stott was fined $100 for refusing to answer questions. Then Judge Ferguson granted the defendants' crossbill asking dissolution of the company. Up jumped Bertha Stott. She cried...
Twenty years ago there was no greater contrabassist in all Europe than Serge Koussevitzky but he outgrew even that colossal instrument, became a conductor. Not until last year did he gather his admiring Bostonians around him and show them what he used to do with the double-bass. Boston rhapsodized but Manhattan waited to form her own judgment. In Boston King Koussevitzky can do no wrong. Neither could he last week in Manhattan. Of his first double-bass recital there, Critic Lawrence Oilman wrote in part...