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...because of his carrot mane and his penchant for clashing red clothes, Grooms is as gently ingenuous as his art. After high school in Nashville (where he was voted "Most Witty"), he successively studied at the Art Institute of Chicago, at the New School, and with Hans Hofmann in Provincetown. Fascinated with things theatrical, he also became head usher at the old Roxy in New York. "Part of art is showmanship," he says. He directed his own "happenings" and acted in them in clown's whiteface and ice-cream pants. Action painting was a religious faith...
They fell in with a bohemian group of intellectuals led by Hazel Hawthorne, whom Fred describes as "one of the original beats," and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Dana, a somewhat leftish drama professor at Columbia and Harvard. Dana subsidized Cheever modestly, and Hazel took him to Provincetown to visit the famed Playhouse. He was already keeping the meticulous diary in which he accumulated the incidents, sights, smells and thoughts that are the raw material for his books. Cheever even then seemed to have an infinite capacity for wonder, was constantly fascinated with how close reality came to the fantastic. He began...
Although gale warnings and a full hurricane watch are now in effect from Block Island to Provincetown, the Boston area will not be severely affected by the storm. Winds here may exceed 45 m.p.h. but the medium to heavy rainfall should end by tonight. Skies will be partially clear on Wednesday...
...companies, straw-hat theaters, or in Hollywood's now-all-but-vanished B pictures. Disdained by highbrows as inferior, ignored by serious critics in search of "specials," television nonetheless offers young actors a wonderfully flexible working stage and an audience millions of times greater than anything Ogunquit or Provincetown ever knew. There are a hun dred available roles to be cast each day. a thousand each week; not since the early days of motion pictures, and before that the traveling troupes of strolling players, has such repertory training been possible...
...often so abstract that no object can be discerned in his work; but when one is present, it is likely to be derived from around his house in Provincetown. Mass. In the show of Knaths's work that was on display last week at Manhattan's Paul Rosenberg & Co., the sailboats and fishermen, wharves and beaches of Cape Cod were all there, transformed into a subtle geometry that partially conceals their identity but thereby achieves what Knaths is after-"mood and wonder." Knaths never goes in for dramatics. His colors are muted, do not dazzle. He can catch...