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Cinemactor Thomas Mitchell, who last month won an Oscar for playing the best supporting role (in Stagecoach) of 1939, makes good pictures. He buys still better ones. The library of his Riviera (near Hollywood) home has a special niche over the mantel. It is the shrine where Tom Mitchell hangs his latest purchases. In it have hung successively a Rouault Christ, a Whistler view of the Thames, a Modigliani woman with red hair, an Utrillo landscape, an oil sketch of a screaming woman from Picasso's Guernica. Last week it was the Picasso's turn to move...
Lending color, if not substance, to this theory was an announcement from the Japanese Imperial Household of the establishment of a "grand national shrine'' to the Sun Goddess on Carooca, southernmost of the Japanese-owned Palau Islands. "The islands have come to occupy a very important position as an advance outpost of Japanese development southward in industry, economy and culture," read the announcement...
...Ignorance (Doubleday, Doran, $2), Author Levant's book races bumptiously and gabbily through 267 pages of anecdote about the great, near great, and not-so-great of the music and cinema worlds, pats Toscaninis and Stokowskis on the back, mourns worshipfully at the late George Gershwin's shrine, analyzes the musical gifts of Harpo Marx and Charlie Chaplin, chats wittily and continuously about Oscar Levant...
...Firstly, a visit I made to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico...
...writers, "intellectuals" and students sent to gather material on Joseph Vissarionovich Djugashvili's birthplace and early surroundings. Newspapers printed sentimental poems and stories about the "little house in Gori" and latest photographs showed that it had been enclosed in an ornamental stone structure and turned into a Soviet shrine. A Tiflis motion-picture studio started filming Through Historic Localities, a cinema intended to conduct the spectator through every part of the country associated with Joseph Stalin's name...