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With audiences everywhere, she is very possibly the most popular of all British actresses. Her range of roles in her 33 films and 107 plays has been enormous-from Madame Arcati, the happy medium in Noel Coward's Blithe Spirit, to Oscar Wilde's Miss Prism in The Importance of Being Earnest. Her face and manner are unmistakably singular. She is the ultimate symbol of resourceful, tweedily eccentric British womanhood, of the old gals who go stamping across the heath in the wild rain, looking for stuffed shirts to poke with their umbrellas...
...movement. He acknowledges his debt to Cezanne, as well as to Villon and Delaunay for color and Juan Gris for his sense of plane structure. But Knaths (pronounced with the K sounded) paints only like Knaths. for he has always viewed the world through his own private prism...
...Prism & Wonderland. One of five curates at St. Stephen's, Priest-Publisher Beaumont-thanks to an "understanding" vicar-has no duties except on Sunday, a privilege shared by some Anglican "worker priests" in British industrial cities who labor weekdays in factories, preach and worship on Sunday in mission chapels. Beaumont is currently in the midst of tidying up his communications interests. For "a nominal sum," he recently sold the weekly magazine Time & Tide, which he saved from extinction in 1960 and turned into one of England's liveliest but most unprofitable journals of opinion (he lost...
Golf Inside a Prism. In his early work, Marin seemed under the influence of Whistler, but he quickly acquired a stamp wholly his own. He was fascinated by force, energy, bustle and movement, and this obsession dictated a fresh technique...
...smooth surface of his watercolors began to crumple into fragments, as if each scene he painted had jumped inside a prism. Everything was recognizable, but everything was also slightly out of place, tipped or distorted to give a sense of motion. Of his watercolors, Marin insisted: "Painting is like golf; the fewer the strokes I take, the better the picture." But for all its spontaneity and frugality, the watercolor sometimes seemed too delicate...