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...others he had in mind, but the few finished pictures he did produce were apt to be dim, moody echoes of the Renaissance masters. In view of all this, many an art critic wondered if he could be considered a true painter at all. When Novelist Gertrude Stein once put that harsh question to him, Berard fell on his knees protesting, "Yes, oh, yes!" Last week, a Manhattan gallery staged a posthumous show of his portraits that helped to tip the decision a little in Bébé's favor...
...faced Sir Alfred, 70, had made his reputation as an able painter of fine horseflesh. More recently, he had been worsted by Tate Gallery Director John Rothen stein in a public test of the Academy's taste in art collecting (TIME, March 14] and announced his decision to retire nex year. But Horse Painter Munnings was still feeling his oats; he made the R.A. dinner an occasion to register his emphatic nay to modern...
...gimmick in the five cent beer is the small glass that surrounds it. The publicity conscious barkeep in New York now in the national spotlight is supposed to use a six-ounce stein for his nickel brew. Local pourers suspect his heads foam unusually high. Another tavern on 96th Street sells ten cent beer in nine-ounce glasses, and five cent helpings in four-ounce steins. The profit here still goes to the clever samaritan who paid for the television set over your head...
...seems producers, even very successful ones like George Abbott, will never learn that a funny idea and a few dangling gags cannot make a good stage comedy. Mr. Abbott, the producer of the new comedy by Will Glickman and Joseph Stein, should have been able to see that even the two-line jokes were infrequent and that the basic humorous situation in the play was written completely without the writers' consulting their hearts. The results is a painfully strained, unoriginal, play about some people who are either incredibly stupid or plain contemptible...
Yesterday a little brown package arrived at the CRIMSON from John P. Brown '14, one of the two perpetrators. He supplied the stein's biography as far as Copey's door mat, but he preserved in secrecy the rest of the saga...