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...education, art, democracy and parenthood is still pertinent. On the other hand, the New Woman that G.B.S. gleefully released from his inkwell has become the disenchanted genie of the modern home. The play ends up with too many points of view to make a point. Yet the canny showman salvages the sage, and the plot -girl meets boy, girl chases boy, girl gets boy-is as good as it always has been...
Tireless is the word for Showman Billy Rose. Fortnight ago, acting as head of the fine arts committee for Israel's new Jerusalem Museum of Art, he announced that he had persuaded U.S. Sculptor Jacques Lipchitz to bequeath 300 original plasters to the museum.* Last week he announced another coup. While lunching in London a month ago, he said, he asked the widow of Sculptor Jacob Epstein just what her U.S.-born husband would have done with his 200-odd original plasters had he known that Rose was gathering works for the ambitious museum in Israel. "Give them...
...bequest was one that any museum in the world would have been overjoyed to get, but only the new Jerusalem Museum of Art has so persuasive a booster as U.S. Showman Billy Rose. For years curators and directors have been angling for the Lipchitz plasters-so many, in fact, that the great sculptor hardly knew which way to turn. Then one day Lipchitz' old friend Billy came to call in his capacity as the chairman of the Jerusalem Museum's art committee. After talking with Billy. Lipchitz suddenly realized that to give his plasters to Israel...
Lipchitz' graven images are among the finest of this century, and Showman Rose was not exaggerating last week when he made his own estimate of their value. "When you think that one bronze reproduction might bring in $15,000, and that here we'll have 300 of the original plaster models, well. I'd hate to think what the value would be in figures, but it's astronomical...
...year-drew a capacity 20,000, proving that three years after his Moscow triumph he still commands a movie-fan idolatry rare among longhairs. His ardently romantic manner of playing the piano is only part of the appeal; Cliburn also obviously enjoys crowds and loves applause and has a showman's sure instinct for using his gifts. At Lewisohn, Showman Cliburn was in peak form...