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Last spring Administrator Stewart McDonald of FHA, longtime St. Louis friend of Jerry Lambert, telephoned him at his estate in Princeton, N. J., asked him down to Washington to help on Housing. Inventor Lambert knew nothing of that subject but went anyway, studied under FHA's experts. Within three months he had invented something and was building it at Princeton with $30,000 of his own money...
Last week London's renewed interest in many-minded Pablo Picasso was whetted by a big, swank show of paintings from the School of Paris at the spacious old Lefevre Galleries off St. James's Square. Eight Picassos of different periods (he has had eight so far: Realist, Toulouse-Lautrec, Blue, Rose, African, Cubistic, Neo-Classical and Surrealistic) were surrounded by canvases by Bauchant, Bonnard, Braque, Dali, Derain, Dufresne, Dufy, La Fresnaye, Leger, Lurçat, Matisse, Miro, Modigliani, Pascin, Redon, Rousseau, Rouault, Segonzac, Soutine, Utrillo, Vuillard...
Last week it appeared that his dream of publishing a book of Foxy drawings would not come true. Doctors at Manhattan's St. Vincent's Hospital ordered him to bed, announced his 72-year-old heart was ailing. Said he: "Foxy was never afraid of anything. Neither...
Autry's revolutionary contribution to westerns was a soft, sleepy-sounding baritone voice. A onetime telegrapher for the St. Louis-San Francisco Railway, who had used his ample spare time in learning to sing and strum the guitar, Autry had later become a crooner of plains ballads for smalltime radio stations. When Republic decided to try to save westerns with the experiment of a singing cowboy, he was selected for the spot and succeeded instantly...
Last week in the swank Viennese Room of Manhattan's St. Regis Roof Garden, a select group of swing fans sat out the most gilt-edged concert yet recorded in the annals of pure, impromptu swing...