Word: sketches
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Boston's annual influx of second-rate drawing room comedies began Monday. The opener was a farcical sketch by Edmund Beloin and Henry Garson, the chief distinction of which was the wholesale deportation of its dramatis personac from the environs of Beverly Hills to Rome, Italy. Except, however, for a view of Victor Emmanuel's statue out the living room window and a few abortive attempts at satirizing the Italian motion picture industry, every one of them might just as well have stood...
...answer in two parts: 1) a friendly letter from Matisse, 2) a tubular package which arrived last week. Caditz, knowing from the letter that something good was on the way, called in his friends and opened the package with ceremony and champagne. Inside was a delicate pen & ink sketch of a girl's head. Generous but cautious Henri Matisse had written: "I am sending you . . . the object you desire, with the hope that it will please you. But I pray you not to encourage any of your friends to make a similar request of me." His mail-order...
...late Sir Edward Hulton, who, before he sold out to Lord Rothermere in 1923, owned one of the biggest chains of newspapers in Britain (Evening Standard, Daily Sketch, Sunday Chronicle, Sunday Times...
...lively colors, some swift lines brushed in with a spare and sure touch. What they lacked in detail was made up in warmth and spontaneity. In a painting of his young daughter Kate, prim and neat in a party dress, Cox had added off to one side a quick sketch of her playing in the buff which deftly caught the uninhibited side of three-year-olds. Even in a portrait, says Cox, "you're trying for something universal...
...seedy sketch of a plot in no way detracts from the high pitch of excitement, sounded in the first dark scene and never lowered, even at the end. Rather, its sparsity gives the characters and the director complete freedom to handle now-hackneyed sequences with new concepts of suspense. Dialogue is kept at a minimum, and action at an unswerving peak. Close-ups, usually a dangerous gimmick, successfully convey the desired note here as the actors act natural, a rare phenomenon in modern movies...