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Machinery & Veils. Anatomy at the Folies was so beautifully plastic that Rodin wanted to sculpt it; the theater was so colorful that Manet painted it. To see and meet the Folies' beauties, European royalty made pilgrimages to Paris...
...Artist Sutherland trying to do in oils what Rodin did in bronze? Sutherland's robed Churchill [Oct. 31] and Rodin's robed Balzac bear a close resemblance-in form if not in feeling...
When they come to the Rodin Museum, Jeanne and Alan stick their heads through the noble statue of The Burghers of Calais and smooch a little. Jeanne, as she bats those baby-blues at The Thinker, declares, "I wonder what he is thinking about." After that, nothing matters anyhow. Jane Russell keeps trying to give Scott Brady, her agent, the other 90% of her; and both young women sing, as nowadays most lady vocalists do, in a peculiarly unpleasant morning voice. The hoarseness is apparently intended to suggest that the girls have taken large doses of sin in their time...
Died. Carl Milles, 80, Swedish-born modern master of park and fountain sculpture; in Lidingö, Sweden. Milles studied in Paris for seven years, was assistant to Auguste Rodin, moved on to hew lithe, dreamlike figures often drawn from Norse, Greek and American Indian mythologies (TIME, June 27). In 1929 he came to the U.S. to teach at Cranbrook Academy, Bloomfield Hills, Mich., became a U.S. citizen in 1945. Among his best-known works: Stockholm's Orpheus Fountain; St. Louis' The Meeting of the Waters, 19 life-sized figures symbolizing the meeting of the Mississippi and Missouri Rivers...
...traditional enough to keep some from ridiculing his exaggeratedly lean figures. One St. Louis art commission member thought Milles' The Meeting of the Waters (above) looked like "a wedding in a nudist colony." Modernists have found Milles wanting in imagination to move beyond the aura of Rodin, and lacking in Rodin's great power. For his part Milles sees little to praise in modern sculpture. "Their work is too stiff," he says. "They take a spiral and make a hole in it. I can do that myself...