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...Fine Arts Theatre has on exhibit in its outer lobby some twenty paintings done by Laura Mackay, a women whose talent and technical ability cannot be disputed. Her land and sea-scapes are reminiscent of paintings executed by certain she fall into the dangerous rut of auction room impressionism, a frailty common among many artists who are painting today. Her piece entitled "Pines And Snow," contains a definite Corot-ish tendency; and Miss Mackay has, perhaps unconsciously, adapted Corot's facility for painting early morning landscapes in her won subject matter with success...
...last week a truck, lumbering along Washington's snowy Thirteenth Street, hit a rut, shook & shivered. On the truck was a cake, 5½ feet high). On the cake was a legend-HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our PRESIDENT-and 58 candles cased in 58 photostats of 58 $100 checks. At the jolt, one of the four layers of the cake cracked, collapsed. Back to its confectioners went the injured cake, but on to the White House went A. F. of L.'s William Green, three pretty girls, three publicity men. On behalf of contributing A. F. of L. unions...
...compare his programs with those of other leading conductors to see that Koussevitsky is also outstanding in his bold and frequent digressions from the traditional orchestral repertoire. It is easy for established artists to fall in completely with conservative section of their public and get into a repetitions rut as the Metropolitan Opera Company has done, Koussevitsky is criticised plentifully, especially for favoring contemporary composers so strongly, but a concert like Malko's and a look at the work of other conductors in America are enough to remind us that the repertoire of the Boston Symphony...
Last week he popped up again with a novel, Mars in the House of Death, and an account of where he has been all this time. He quit Hollywood because: 1) doctors told him the pace would kill him shortly, 2) he felt he was getting in a rut. Well-heeled (he got about $125,000 a picture, plus 25% of profits), he bought Ciné studios in Nice, decided to travel. Until two years ago, when he settled in Mexico, he had lived in Morocco, Algeria, Tunisia, Syria, Spain, Egypt, learned Arabic, got 20 pieces of his own sculpture...
This year's senior received last week a unique phenomenon, an album which had replaced the usually ghastly attempts at facetious reminiscence with a serious interpretation of the past four years. The senior is glad to see this, glad the editors have escaped the rut of ordinary albums, or alba...