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...Epoque, a usually staid Paris daily, hazarded a political revelation. A cat, it charged, was carried on the budget of the Bibliotheque Nationale, France's vast and ponderous national library. The cat, maintained by the library to discourage rats from gnawing the bindings, was said by L'Epoque to have died recently after giving birth to kittens and had been circumspectly replaced by a male...
...about as confusing in its parody as "The Skin of Our Teeth." Few theatregoers agree on the Wilder hodge-podge and there will be disagreement over the British-made United Artists film as well. On a few points there will be general accord: "Colonel Blimp" is long, technicolored, staid, and generally entertaining...
...Larry Adler can be highbrow on the harmonica or Andres Segovia on the guitar, what's wrong with an accordion? To prove there was nothing wrong, a slight, pretty accordion player with gold loops in her ears took the stage at Manhattan's staid Town Hall...
...119th year, the venerable National Academy of Design put on the nation's most genteel, conventional art show. Last week in Manhattan the Academicians packed their staid galleries with 353 items classified as "Contemporary American Painting, Sculpture and Graphic Art," distributed $2,400 in prizes. As usual, portraits of pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour...
...Marsh studied painting at Manhattan's Art Students League, made his reputation in the late '20s with Hogarthian studies of city low life ("Well-bred people are no fun to paint"). His Strip Tease was easily, by the width of a broad bottom, the raciest picture the staid Corcoran had ever thus honored. It showed a slightly idealized, if muscular, ecdysiast in mid-routine. The variously brooding faces of seven balding burlesque-addicts include the artist's own, in foreground (see cut). Artist Marsh found the inspiration for Strip Tease in a Union City, N.J. burlesque house...