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...cartoons, five out of seven stories, three poems. Of course, Edwards helped him on a couple of stories but you'd never know it from the style. And what is there beside his stuff? The Wentworth piece, sure, probably the best he's done so far. Good sketch of an ill-clothed, ill-fed French family which waits months for a CARE package. When it comes, it's all American magazines. And Wes Johnson's idea about a holdup at the Cambridge Trust curb teller makes a good cartoon. But what else? Robinson keeps drawing those goddam spiderweb cartoons utterly...

Author: By Milton S. Gwirtzman, | Title: The Lampoon | 4/16/1953 | See Source »

With little pretense of plot, I Am a Camera tries to reproduce Isherwood's impressionistic picture of a decadent city. Essentially, however, the play is no more than a character sketch of the memorable Sally Bowles. Van Druten's efforts to dramatize other elements of Isherwood's portrait--particularly the plight of Jews in a Germany rotting with Naziism--are remarkably unimaginative. And less significant diversions--the American millionaire, the comic landlady--are written and played as stereotypes. Because of Julie Harris, however, I Am a Camera successfully captures the Sally of the Berlin Stories. The immature, flambouyant nymphomaniac steps...

Author: By R. E. Oldenburg, | Title: I Am A Camera | 4/9/1953 | See Source »

...Whistler's professional "mission" was "revealing the Thames to the people who lived on it but had previously only seen it as a stretch of water." His avocation was what he called "the gentle art of making enemies." A lady who asked him if he thought a certain sketch indecent was told, "No, madam, but your question is." When one of his students who had painted a "red elbow with green shadows" argued, "I am sure I just paint what I see," the Master answered, "Ah, but the shock will come when you see what you paint...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: West Pointer with a Brush | 3/23/1953 | See Source »

...twenty-minute film sketch shuttles you through a series of students' rooms, Adams' panelled dinning hall, the Master's residence and the Radcliffe Quad. But the film is not merely a dry House travelogue; exhuberant students appear in almost every frame. Also Ivy has attempted to smooth its scene shifts with humorous plot sequences, but the transitions are still reminiscent of a newsreel...

Author: By Byron R. Wien, | Title: Gold Coasting | 3/20/1953 | See Source »

...last week Diego had worked his way to the coat, and he painted right over the sketch of the Virgin as though it had never been there. He had been, as he loves to be, the center of a rousing controversy, punctuated by black, satisfying headlines. The incident was closed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MEXICO: Painted Over | 3/16/1953 | See Source »

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