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...morning she achieved the purpose of her visit was warm and golden with spring sunshine. In budding Grosvenor Square, in her black dress and coat among the pastel dresses of royalty, she walked with George VI to the towering bronze statue of Franklin Delano Roosevelt and pulled down the Union Jack that had veiled it. It was the third anniversary of her husband's death...
...second Sheets exhibition, which opened in Los Angeles' State Exposition Building almost simultaneously with the first, showed something of his range and of his success. On the walls were menu covers for a steamship line, designs for his pastel-painted airports, drawings done as a LIFE war artist in India, silk-screen prints, lithographs and photographs of buildings on which he had collaborated, sculptures done for a chichi Hollywood bar, a huge restaurant mural in mosaic. "People think of me as a watercolorist," says Sheets, "because I've painted so many. Watercolors can be done in a hurry...
Lobster. Last week, the royal scene was, as usual, pure pastel. Gustaf now spends most of his time at Drottningholm Castle, which stands on an island in a lake near Stockholm (his town palace has too many stairs, only one elevator). From his study window he can see his subjects walking beneath the huge trees in the garden or near the pond where, in the summer, they feed Gustaf's swans. He likes to surround himself with women & children, lunches in the company of elderly ladies in waiting. His favorite dish is still lobster in brandy sauce...
Debussy: Preludes, Book II (E. Robert Schmitz, pianist; Victor, 12 sides). Schmitz paints in varying pastel shades, has little of the flashing color shown by Walter Gieseking in earlier records of the same pieces. Recording: good...
...Hifalutin Ideas. Well-poised Miss Memphis, Barbara Jo Walker, had the most of that. To her own piano accompaniment, she sang The First Kiss, and Un Bel Di Vedremo from Madame Butterfly. For good measure, she presented the judges with three pastel art works of her own creation. At 47 minutes after midnight on the pageant's fifth night, the dark-haired singer from Memphis was crowned Miss America...