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...must have some quality that distinguishes him from the mass, wisdom and standards that equip him for leadership. The people in your article do not meet these requirements. Mr. Guest inherited some money and plays a pretty fair game of polo. Mrs. Guest posed in the nude for Diego Rivera and flirted unsuccessfully with Hollywood...
...signed her for a seven-year contract. Ceezee did not bowl over Hollywood. After nine months of coaching and study, but no screen credits, she went back to Boston. But Ceezee was not to be completely without an audience. On a trip to Mexico in 1945, she met Diego Rivera, who immediately wanted to paint her-in the nude. Ceezee didn't wince, and when the painting was later hung in Giro's Bar in the Hotel Reforma, she didn't think it was anything to get excited about...
...Things. Another East Side co-op (i Sutton Place South) in which Jansen has had a hand belongs to Winston Frederick Churchill Guest, an heir to the Phipps steel money, and his wife Lucy ("C.Z."). Boston-born "C.Z." was a Ziegfeld girl and artist's model for Diego Rivera before she settled down as one of New York's more active society matrons. The Guests have homes in Palm Beach and Roslyn, L.I., and rent a "hunting box" in Virginia, have turned their Manhattan apartment into a showcase for their English and French antiques and porcelains. To bring...
...smaller pieces are made of tubing that can be heated and bent like silvery glass. The larger pieces begin as metal sheets, painstakingly cut and hammered into shape. When De Rivera is satisfied with a sculpture, he files and polishes it until its surface, made as sensitive to light as possible, dances with reflections that make it seem to flow with life. The works are often shown on slowly revolving turntables...
...sculptures are not symbols or borrowings from nature. "What I make." says De Rivera, "represents nothing but itself. My work is really an attempt to describe the maximum space with the minimum of material." Directed toward that goal, at once so simple and so difficult, his sculptures become triumphs of frugal elegance. Each curve, each line, each swirl follows every other so naturally that of the unlimited possibilities that confronted him, it seems, almost invariably, that the artist has picked the only one that is just right...