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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Just plain spectators ran into a barrel of minor complications. Some groups, with visions of perpetual motion machines and gadgets, devoted their energies to tracking down the Mechanical Room, only to come finally on a sort of boiler room packed with air-conditioning machinery...
...curve of pictures. Since Matisse cannot work for long on his feet, he will be unable to paint the pictures on the walls directly, plans to do them on tile which will afterward be baked and placed in position. He hopes that the painting will have the same sort of impact that he himself once received from Giotto's frescoes at Padua...
...Veteran Dramatist Maxwell Anderson, who once took an ad to call critics "a sort of Jukes family of journalism." Even this season, when his Anne of the Thousand Days (TIME, Dec. 20) set critics to reaching for their superlatives, Anderson was not mollified. With fellow members of the Playwrights' Company and Co-Producer Leland Hayward, Anderson decided to put the critics in their place by not taking any display ads nor quoting a word of their praise...
Both kinds will get plenty of chance to hear him. At 40, Yorkshireman Kell has come to the U.S. to stay. Says he: "All I could see ahead over there was the same old sort of thing. I thought I'd get out a bit and see what America might offer...
...must put off your . . . knowledge . . . you must live in my world . . . if I can't inhabit yours." To make sure, he went to stay a few days with Russell in Cambridge, rushed away in a state of "melancholic malaria." "I wish you would swear a sort of allegiance with me," he said. ". . . I have been much too Christian . . . I must drop all about God . . . You must drop all your democracy . . . There must be an aristocracy . . . a Ruler: a Kaiser: no Presidents & democracies...