Word: rubenstein
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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VICTOR G. RUBENSTEIN, M.D. Los Angeles, Calif...
...exhibition of Lewis Rubenstein '30, in Leverett House is the newest addition to House personality and a very worthy one. It includes pastel studies for his Germanic murals, a few wash drawings, and some painstaking water colors, most of which are done in gouache. If the exhibition seems a sketchy presentation of Mr. Rubenstein, it is only because many of the pictures are either studies for murals of pure exercises in body composition. The sponsors have naturally been limited in their choice, but for future exhibitions,--and there certainly should be many of them,--they should attempt to gather...
...most striking thing in Mr, Rubenstein is the three-dimensional solidity of his bodies. It is evident in his muscular studies, as "Thor" and "Hand Grenade Throwers," and in the fine plastic anatomy of his faces, particularly "Negro's Head" where greatest strength is centered in the eyes. His sense of line is splendid. It is strong, almost fiercely so, in his pastels, but more subtle and still as effective in such drawings as "Gobs." The two sailors with hands in pocket at the lower left and the pugnacious face at top-center are marvels of characterization. In that native...
...only is Mr. Rubenstein's exhibition a successful one, but in its presentation its sponsors have hit upon a valuable function of the House common room. Informality is the essence of the show. The undergraduate can sip coffee and converse at the same time as he enjoys Mr. Rubenstein's work, and surely this is the truest spirit of art, not forced upon one stiffly from museum walls, but blended into normal and everyday surroundings...
...Authorities last night apprehended two men who had in their possession a swing arrangement of Rubenstein's "Melody in F." Police say that the men failed in an attempt to destroy the evidence, and it will be used against them when they appear before the court next Tuesday. It is believed that the men are members of the gang headed by the notorious czar of bootleg swing, Benny (Hot-Fingers) Goodman...