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...Comptroller General John Raymond McCarl came an "emergency relief" bill for $1,406,48 for a pastel tinted shower and air conditioner which Acting Secretary of the Treasury Henry Morgenthau Jr. had installed in his office last summer when he was Farm Credit Administrator. Comptroller McCarl refused to pay for such "relief...
...mannequin show with a band, girls and dresses. An extraordinary chorus dance in the exotic style of Rockefeller Center Music Hall is done by girls in pastel -spangled, long -trained dresses. They wade, twitch, writhe. The result is effective...
...eyes after the humiliation of branding. The lovely flowered race course at Santiago, somehow English and somehow Swiss. The miracle of a transatlantic telephone conversation, across the mighty Andes, across the pampas and the sea wrack to one's own apartment in the Champ-de-Mars. Bristling, pastel-colored Andean peaks whose ice-covered escarpment separates like some fabulous wall-top of broken glass the nations of Argentina and Chile. Nitrates waiting at the port of Antofagasta to enrich the Guggenheims. The atrocious destitution of the little cities of northern Chile. The cathedral at Arequipa, built of honey-colored...
...midst of a number of characters and characterizations which are about as lifelike as Victorian porcelain under glass, hitherto frail Miss Gish stands out full-blooded and alive. Gone is her pastel shy- ness, gone are her girlish gasps as she takes the part of the murderess who gave up a pallid suitor to stalk Electra-like after her vicious father and his paramour through the gloom of their New England parlor, killing one with a walking stick, another with a flat iron. Actress Gish still has a strong hold on her part in the otherwise flabby final scene when...
...wise-eyed Riding Clown (Orrin Davenport) waiting for his turn in the ring in orange derby, tie and wig, his red putty nose outlined against a blue night sky. Critics last week admired Curry's feat (as difficult as the Passing Leap) of getting the circus' gaudy, pastel colors in oils. Circus action gave play to his potent, compact drawing, his flair for packing a lot of disorganized life into a close-knit composition...