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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...association with Max Gordon), half a clowning comic strip, half a romantic daguerreotype, is based on the life of Jesse James. Playwright Ginty, with some support from history, has made James (Dean Jagger) into a droll sort of Jekyll & Hyde who, when not "riding out," is Thomas Howard of St. Joe, Mo., a sober family man with a mousy wife (Dorothy Gish), and a pillar of the local Baptist church...
Medical schools have been the chief objects of G. E. B.'s philanthropy, to the tune of $89,000,000. Vanderbilt's got over $15,000,000, University of Chicago's nearly $11,000,000. Others: Johns Hopkins, Cornell, Washington University (St. Louis), Yale. Harvard, Columbia. To liberal arts colleges, G. E. B. has given $68,000,000; for Negro education, $40,000,000; for special educational programs, $53,000,000. By stipulating that its gifts be matched by other donors, it stimulated donations totaling $400,000,000 to U. S. higher education...
...maker of stained glass, later became the favorite pupil of the academic painter, Gustave Moreau. Since Moreau's death in 1897, pale, clerkish Georges Rouault has lived a mystic, melancholy life. Every day he goes to the little Moreau museum, of which he is curator, near the Gare St. Lazare, often lunches violently with his old friend, Ambroise Vollard, returns to a mysterious home to paint, in brutal black outline, with dark glowing reds and blues like medieval stained glass, figures of clowns and sufferers from his imagined ''legendary countries...
...sober critics have called "magical." Apparently carefree but quick on the trigger, Cartier-Bresson has snapped unforgettable, revelatory pictures of commonplace and sub-commonplace scenes, from bare French cafe tables to Mexicans with their pants down. Closest to him among U. S. photographers is a 35-year-old ex-St. Louisan with an inquiring nose and an unobtrusive but exacting eye. Walker Evans began with simple equipment ten years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American...
Frederic C. Kriger, of St. Paul, Minn., as. Austin Teaching Fellow in Geology...