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...Paris weekly Arts last week surveyed 1954 sales, noted the following market trends: Old-masters market stationary with demand moderate, but a healthy trading in old Italians, especially the Venetians. French 18th century art still gilt-edged, drawing excellent prices in London and Paris, with a small Watteau sketch selling for $7,700 and a "frivolous" little Boucher bid up to $14,000. Still leading the blue chips: the impressionists...
Died. Emile Gauguin, 81, retired construction engineer, elder son of Painter Paul Gauguin and Mette Gad, the Danish wife whom Gauguin deserted to follow a painting career; of bronchial pneumonia; in Englewood. Fla. Although he owned only one of his father's works, a pencil sketch of his mother, Emile Gauguin staunchly defended his father's reputation, in 1941 threatened to sue United Artists if they used any Gauguin art in the movie version of Somerset Maugham's The Moon and Sixpence, claiming that it would identify the disreputable hero with his father (see BOOKS...
When the train rolled into Los Angeles, the first sketch of the historic rodent was tucked safely in Walt's pocket, and the roughs of his first cartoon, Plane Crazy, were drawn. Plane Crazy, however, was not the first to reach the public. Sound came roaring in just then, and silent pictures silently expired. Walt rushed to New York, recorded sound track for a new Mickey Mouse cartoon called Steamboat Willie, and released it in Manhattan. "It's a wow!" cried one critic after another, and the public came piling in. Man was about to be conquered...
...inferior material. Caesar has been saddled with a story line that succeeds in making him a good deal more cantankerous than comic. Perhaps unconsciously, his show appears designed as a replay of Jackie Gleason's The Honeymooners on a considerably higher income level. Caesar's continuing sketch, The Commuters, deals with suburbanites. In this framework, he plays a grown-up juvenile delinquent whose temper tantrums and general unpleasantness make him the despair of his wife (Nanette Fabray) and his friends. Writers and actors give the strong impression that they cannot fill the 60 minutes of Caesar...
...idea surrounded by dialogue that, expanded and given direction, might have become first rate writing. As it stands, it is a bit disappointing. Miss Johnson, instead of wrestling with such problems of construction as how to run some line of interest through her conversations, is content to let her sketch meander from its beginning to its end. Never seeming to head anywhere, it just wanders, then stops, building toward nothing in particular...