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High Roman Catholic prelates never had a more enthusiastic friend than Mrs. Macaulay, whose pleasure it was to entertain the dignitaries of her Church at "Inisfada." On sale last week were the beds they slept in, the antique crucifixes before which they prayed, the scenic tapestries which undoubtedly inspired them to homely homiletics. Some of the most important of these tapestries figured in the auction's largest sale-$43,000 each for two 11-by-15-ft. genre scenes, woven circa 1500, of country life at the Château d'Effiat in Auvergne. These Tournai Gothic tapestries...
Meantime across the continent in Hollywood a shutdown of the nation's major cinema studios remained all week in prospect as 6,000 painters, make-up men & scenic artists and members of eight other crafts, allied in Federated Motion Picture Crafts, continued on strike for union recognition and closed shops (TIME, May 10). With the help of strikebreakers, cameras ground away as usual, but over Hollywood hung the ominous air of strike-torn Detroit. Strikers, working in three shifts of 1,000 pickets each, shuffled around the studios, scuffled with non-strikers, tried to intimidate actors and others passing...
...five-year contract forbidding strikes. Independent unions, affiliated with American Federation of Labor, have long struggled vainly for-recognition. Last week when their demands for recognition and all-union shops were turned down for the fifth successive year, 3,000 members of A. F. of L. painters', scenic artists' and make-up men's unions walked out on strike. Picket lines paced before major studios, but production of 38 cinemas currently afilming went on about as usual, non-union workers filling the places of strikers. Meantime strike leaders were organizing their unions and 15 other independents into...
...treatments in Paris, regretted that he could not enjoy "the best blondes and beer in the world." Said he: "I wish I could see them better. The blondes, I mean. Going to a nightclub when you can't see is like going for a ride on a scenic railway during an eclipse...
...scenic beauties of the United States he cannot say too much. The Grand Canyon inspires him. He characterizes it as "a sort of landscape Day of Judgment . . . not a show place, a beauty spot, but a revelation . . ." The beauties and peace of Southern California appear in his mind in bas relief against the horrors of the artificiality and superficiality which he finds in Hollywood...