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Jules Kirschenbaum, 32, and his Latvian-born wife, Cornelis Ruhtenberg, had both always painted realistically, though she once tried abstraction ("It seemed awfully easy"). Painter Ruhtenberg likes to show "figures against space, to get figures against a flat background without making perspective." In Potiphar's Wife (see overleaf), the running man balances the seated figure: "The problem was to have a contained picture, yet have movement." In Kirschenbaum's Sleeping Figures, the problem was to achieve "the dreamlike qualities of everything becoming different yet clear." The fact that everything in the lush arabesque is not really clear produces...
...THRILL to a New Kind of Love-BIGGER than Oh No, Onan . . . BOLDER than Too Far, Mrs. Potiphar . . . BETTER than I was a Sodomite for the FBI. Next week at your neighborhood theater-Mr. Lot Goes to Town...
...week's end, when San Antonio concertgoers got to hear Joseph, most agreed. First they heard broad phrases in full orchestra, then passages, with the simple serenity of Mozart, depicting the character of Joseph. Later, in the temptation by Potiphar's wife, the music became sensuously dissonant, almost Oriental, reminding some listeners of Salome...
Traveler Cummings' afternoon at the home of the influential woman Communist known as Madame Potiphar-with a lean GPU agent appearing unexpectedly, and the hostess disappearing with "a hero of work" while her husband lectures to Cummings about the Cause-is a queer mixture of horror and humor in upper-crust Communist social life. The other episodes and scenes seem to have grown more impressive-the theater ("everywhere a mysterious sense of behaving, of housebrokenness,of watch-your-stepism"), the jail and the nightclubs, the Writers' Club and the literary receptions, the chronic indigestion, the perpetual enthusiasm...
Billy Sunday had made the choreography easy: he used to act out most of the parables in his sermons himself. Ruth Page had lifted three of her four episodes from Billy's own love stories from the Bible (Samson and Delilah, David and Bathsheba, Joseph and Mrs. Potiphar), updated them to Billy's own times, the 19205. As a blowsy Mrs. Potiphar, Ballerina Danilova brought the house down...