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Last week, Collector Halpert had cleared her gallery's top floor of moderns, to give Manhattanites a rare peek at her old stuff. On exhibition were 27 prize paintings and sculptures, mostly dating from the 19th Century (and from the early Hupmobile raids). Among the standouts: a sad-eyed Woman with Yellow Shawl from Massachusetts, a tapestry-like little Apollo and Marsyas by Edward Hicks, and a Hogarthian Farmhouse Gossip (see cut), signed T. G. Knight, which she had found in Pennsylvania...
...Quick Peek. After the procession passed, everyone surged toward the Palace. While the crowd roared good-natured advice, five elderly gentlemen hastened to drape the royal balcony with a huge bolt of gold-trimmed cloth. The royal foursome stepped out, waving and smiling while the crowd sang "For He's a Jolly Good Fellow!" Five minutes later the King shepherded his family back in. Someone spied Queen Mary in a courtyard below. "We want Queen Mary!" the crowd shouted, but the Queen Mother ignored them.* A minute later the crowd's attention was directed elsewhere. In an upper...
...quality of F.D.R.'s earliest advisers is suggested when Roosevelt tagged Wallace "Old Man Common Sense." But to Milo Reno, a farm-audience spellbinder of the early '30s, "Wallace would make a second-rate County Agent if he knew a little more." And blunt AAAdministrator George Peek (whom Lord respects), wrote: "[Wallace] tended rather to specialize in the study of corn, and was a dreamy, honest-minded and rather likable sort of fellow. He had a mystical, religious side to him, and, never having been in the real rough and tumble of life-for he simply went...
...feet, the plane landed on its skis in the valley itself, a great bowl set amid the mountains. There was no living thing in sight, not even the fearsome character who (the legend said) cut off the heads of explorers and prospectors. All Berton found in his quick peek were two crumbling cabins near by. In one was a faded pin-up picture of Rita Hayworth, which the exploring reporter matched with a pin-up note: "Kilroy was here...
Charles Spencer Chaplin gave the public a preview peek at himself in what looked like the nattiest role of his career (see cut). His long-planned comedy about a Bluebeardish M. Verdoux who marries and murders for money (leading lady: Martha Raye) would finally be out in March, and Producer-Actor Chaplin was moved to a program note: "Von Clausewitz said that war is the logical extension of diplomacy; M. Verdoux feels that murder is the logical extension of business." Bessie Love, sweet-faced young thing of the silents, complained that her ex-husband, Producer William B. Hawks, had fallen...