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...current exhibition of the paintings, pastels, and drawings by Degas at the Fogg Art Museum, is one of the most complete showings of the works by this master that has recently been undertaken in this country. It is somewhat unusual in emphasizing portraiture. The public has become accustomed to associating the name of Degas always with ballet dancers, but here this subject occurs only in the brilliant pastel of the two girls behind the scenes, and in the small pencil drawing on pink paper. The two mono-types, which offer an interesting study of an unusual technique, represent the singers...
Among the other items to be exhibited are both the drawing and the finished pastel of the "Portrait of a Woman"; his well-known painting, "The Laundresses", and a very early portrait. "An Old Italian Beggar Woman." A large, unfinished canvas, another "Woman at the Bath," will be placed on exhibition for the first time...
...seven stories of pink brick with a blue-green base. Its façade and ground floor are a copy of the London shop. Walls and counters are of pale waxed pine, lined with long rows of bottles and preserved goods from all over the world, many painted in pastel shades. Smooth salesmen in morning coats and striped trousers greet the visitors. Much has been done to preserve the British tradition. On exhibit at last week's opening was a tremendous woodcock pie around whose crest were the skulls of 20 woodcocks, a replica of the pie which every...
...fantasy. Having moved the ephemeral Mrs. Moonlight to another playhouse, last week Producer Hopkins presented Alan Alexander Milne's Give Me Yesterday, produced in London in 1923, by the Harvard Dramatic Club in 1929, called Success until a few days before its New York premiere. It relates the pastel-tinted tale of the Rt. Hon. R. Selby Mannock, M. P. (Louis Calhern), who has decided that the world is too much with him, that it would be better to chuck everything and return to the irresponsible life of childhood...
...gazing out across the wide and lovely and silent desert. Undulating, pastel tinted. A white handkerchief knotted at each of the four corners rested upon the famous shock of curly grey hair...