Word: portrait
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Elliott Roosevelt had a week for the scrapbook. His As He Saw It (Duell, Sloan & Pearce; $3) was the subject of one radio program, would shortly be the subject of another, and out of Leningrad belatedly arrived an astrakhandid portrait of the author after a publicity man's heart (see cut). Elliott's answers to a couple of cozy questions on radio's Books on Trial: 1) "I am no Communist;" 2) "I did write the book myself. . . ." Mother Eleanor was his adviser, said he, and "severest critic...
Copland: A Lincoln Portrait (Boston Symphony Orchestra, Serge Koussevitzky conducting, with Melvyn Douglas narrating; Victor, 3 sides). Koussevitzky speeds up Copland's rhythms and Melvyn Douglas reads his lines like a carnival barker. Not so effective as Conductor Artur Rodzinski's 1946 version with the Philharmonic-Symphony Orchestra of New York, which has Negro Baritone Kenneth Spencer's dignified narration. Performance: fair...
...current show, Lachaise's academic portrait studies were elegant as ever, but to a new generation of untutored eyes his swollen little abstractions of parts of the body seemed simply unpleasant, and the mountainously female figures on which his real fame depends carried bovine principles of beauty to a brutal and humorless extreme. Some of his figures were life-size or larger, most of the others were only about a foot high, but they all loomed...
Somehow Deborah also had to squeeze in two sittings in the portrait gallery (the national magazines would be clamoring for pictures). Then there was the housing problem. The studio took care of that. By the greatest good fortune, Screenwriter Casey Robinson (noblesse oblige) had made his Pacific Palisades house available, a charming English-type cottage spang in the middle of an orange grove. This was a great load off Deborah's and Tony's mind (L.B. believes that a good star is a happy star...
...giving lies not with the capitalist businessman, but with the labor leader. Senator Joe Ball tells the press that labor threatens to become a "monopoly" and a "cartel." These are trick words, part of an attempt to transfer the public fear of the monopolistic businessman to the Pegler portrait of the "all-powerful" labor leader. Men in the Congress and out of it are attempting to control a social organism of which they know little and understand almost nothing. The problem is bigger than the labor problem. These men who still regard labor organizations as something alien and threatening...