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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Most of Manhattan's critics wrote sentimentally affectionate reviews. One dissent came from New York Times Drama Critic Brooks Atkinson, who found the new four-a-day show a pale shadow of the classic two-a-day that died at the Palace in 1932. It was true that to get a new start, the proud old Palace had humbled itself with low-budget acts and no headliners. In a famed Variety phrase, the new show's hoofers, illusionists and comics were "good for the smalltime." But Variety itself, pointing to the Palace's low admission scale...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: 8 Acts 8 | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Wright insisted that all his enterprises, including Calumet Farm at Lexington, Ky., show results. He went as high as $75,000 to get the best brood mares he could find. The rest of the Calumet first team that operated under Quarterback...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...early wanderings took him along the "pumpkin show" circuit, from Tulsa to Lewiston, Idaho. Race meetings lasted one or two days, and purses were a piddling $100. About 30 vagabond horsemen roamed this circuit, and none ever got rich?or starved?mainly because of a secret mutual-assistance pact that no matter who won a race everybody with a horse in it shared equally in the purse...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cover: Devil Red & Plain Ben | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

Satirist Lewis has an artist's eye, has long liked to think of himself as more of an artist than a writer. Last week, to Lewis' unconcealed satisfaction, London's Redfern Gallery was staging a full-dress retrospective show of his paintings...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: White Fire | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

...Little. The first big international sculpture show in the U.S. since World War II, it was far too big and varied for quick & easy trend-spotting. Critics confined themselves largely to discussing individual works, observed in passing that the show was roughly divided between monument-type statues and the more economical table-top models, and that neither the abstract left wing nor the representational right wing succeeded in dominating the show. Prices set by the sculptors ranged from $125 for a baby bear by Muriel Kelsey to $24,000 for Spring Stirring, a compact carving in black diorite by California...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Rangy Stepchild | 5/30/1949 | See Source »

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