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...Duffy, Seganzac, Laurencin, Marchand, Marquet, Matisse, Utrillo, Vlaminck) are all seduced by wonder, preoccupied with the intricacies of moods, of surfaces. The pinguid fingers of Matisse's Jenne Fille au Piano strike from the keyboard notes that drip with colored stridence, red like the shuddering walls, waxen yellow and scarlet like the overripe fruits on the table. Duffy's Trouville clutches the beach insecurely, as if at any moment it might balloon, mad with gaiety, into the seawind, and shatter its striped pavilions on the salvoing clouds. Bonnard's Le Palmier is a jungle as gemmed and blazing...
...that, you say, is a little like a movie. And so it might be, a movie in scarlet blue and green with a singing and dancing ensemble, if Mr. Dos Passos had dug more deeply into the surface of his material...
...terest continues to the end. The writer's attempt to be literary is cen tred on his similes ? one on nearly every page. The prize examples: "He carried his left hand upright like a bouquet and through the bandages a spot of red stood out like a scarlet snow-flower on a mountain slope...
...opponent around a ring in Manhattan last week, swinging his fists like mauls. At every swing, the opponent eluded, the empty air mocked the flailing fists. Desperate, Martin fell into a clinch, bent, as if whispering, to his opponent's ear. From this organ instantly spurted a scarlet jet of blood. "He bit me," yelled the astonished victim. Forthwith, the referee stopped the bout, awarded the decision to the bitten individual, one Joseph Celmars...
...from this latter scene that the best acting was forthcoming. Mary Kennedy, for some years a competent but sparsely heralded assistant in the theatre, was responsible. She played a scarlet sister of the public house in a manner to cause both the wise and the uncomprehending to bristle with approval. Miss Kennedy, it may be noted, is a co-author of Mrs. Partridge Presents. A good play on one stage and a magnificent performance on another is a combination which few but her husband can match. He is Mr. Deems Taylor, who writes able music criticisms, entertaining music. (He composed...