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...Pastel Blue (John Kirby; Decca). Manhattan's famed Onyx Club's little band plays homemade low-down music; blues-of-the-month...
...salacious vocal ... After a little checking of master plate numbers, confirmed my guess that jimmy Dorsey's "Arkansas Traveler" was recorded about a year age. Good dise, but the style isn't as good as the one the band now uses.... Listen to Johnny Kirby's record of "Pastel Blues" (Decca) and you won't go near the Art Shaw of the same
...exhibition of Lewis Rubenstein '30, in Leverett House is the newest addition to House personality and a very worthy one. It includes pastel studies for his Germanic murals, a few wash drawings, and some painstaking water colors, most of which are done in gouache. If the exhibition seems a sketchy presentation of Mr. Rubenstein, it is only because many of the pictures are either studies for murals of pure exercises in body composition. The sponsors have naturally been limited in their choice, but for future exhibitions,--and there certainly should be many of them,--they should attempt to gather...
Basically nothing but enormous sheds, the main exposition buildings, stuccoed in "warm ivory" and unobtrusive pastel shades, owe much of their exoticism to "elephant towers," whose angles of light and shadow are softened by the Bay's hazy atmosphere. Mercifully softened also is the 400-foot Tower of the Sun, a nondescript steeple which serves to carry a 44-bell carillon. Last week San Francisco critics bore down hard on the Tower. Said Sculptor Beniamino Bufano: "It should have been a mosque or a minaret." Said Sculptor Ralph Stackpole: "The thing is up. What can you do about...
...ages, men's imaginations have been stirred by the flight of birds. No more dramatic flights have been recorded than those of the pastel-colored passenger pigeons-Audubon guessed a billion in one flock-which once streamed across U. S. skies. The speed with which they were slaughtered was no less fabulous than their flights. (In New York, says one report, 40 boatloads went begging at one cent a pigeon, were finally thrown to the hogs.) The last passenger pigeon died in the Cincinnati zoo in 1914. It now perches behind glass in the Smithsonian Institution -an exquisitely poised...