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First prize at Chicago ($750) went to New York's Russian-born, patriarchal Max Weber, who is regarded with almost religious veneration by his fellow painters. He was doing somber Cézanne-like landscapes and gloomy Picassoish nudes and rabbis before most U.S. modern artists had abstracted their first cube. Painter Weber's prize-winning entry, a ruggedly outlined, moody landscape called Winter Twilight, showed a pair of gaunt tree trunks grimly clutching an overcast sky before a background of cliffs and buildings...
Founder Alexander P. de Seversky, Russian-born flyer-designer, was tossed out by his stockholders in 1940. Cautious, businesslike W. Wallace Kellett, autogyro developer, replaced him, while war orders boomed sales tenfold. But early this year Kellett ran into a pack of production troubles (retooling, shortages, etc.). Deliveries sank to only $2,300,000 v. $6,530,000 in the final half...
Last week, on Manhattan's 57th Street, four of the leading abstractionists broke out with simultaneous exhibitions. Argentine-born Frenchman Fernand Leger started out as a Cubist with Braque and Picasso in 1910. Russian-born Wassily Kandinsky and U. S.-born, German-bred Lyonel Feininger were long masterminds of Germany's Bauhaus group. Spanish-born Joan Miro is a surrealist who is more abstract than Surrealist Salvador Dali. Least abstract of the four abstractionists' pictures were those of stocky Fernand Leger, who now lives in the U. S. Leger's intricate designs, drawn with thick, coally...
...Victor Chenkin Recital (Columbia: 8 sides; $3.50). U. S. disc debut of a Russian-born singing actor who first appeared in pre-revolutionary St. Petersburg, has since performed in Paris and Manhattan. In costume and makeup, Actor Chenkin is equally plausible as a bearded gaffer or a youngster with Jewish ritual earlocks. Here he sings in Yiddish and Hebrew, deftly sets forth the garrulity, gaiety, self-pitying anguish of an Eastern European Jew. Typical song: Scholoch S'udes, in which a rabbi unctuously presides at a banquet...
Five years ago a distinguished Russian-born scientist named Peter Kapitza committed an imprudence. He was, at the time, comfortably installed in England. His mistake was that he went back to Russia...