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...Atget's photographs of Paris in the early 1900s a great deal more than Steichen's highly lit personalities in Vanity Fair. Steichen's love of lighting effects and studio magic (see cut) seemed to them stagy. Among these photographers were Berenice Abbott. Edward Weston, Paul Strand. Ralph Steiner and Walker Evans. The virtue of photography, Evans recalled, lay in the "difference between a quaint evocation of the past and an open window looking straight down a stack of decades...
Lapping the silver strand beneath our feet...
...appeared in the columns of all papers except the chaste Times. They read: "If it's love you're after-? call Circle 7-5900." This pressagent come-on was aimed at the "mug trade," to eke out Actor Leslie Howard's acknowledged carriage-trade appeal. The Strand Theatre installed four extra telephone operators, armed them with a disarmingly commercial answer, waited for the fun to start. Of 11,000 calls handled up to opening day, about 60% came from curious women, 20% from tired business men who generally had their secretaries put the calls through for them...
Hollywood premieres are noted for fancy clothes and phoney congratulations. The first showing of the Department of Agriculture's documentary film, The River, at the little Strand Theatre in New Orleans last week, was marked by plain clothes and sincere praise. What the audience of educators, legislators, literati and plain people saw was a motion picture of startling photographic beauty, sweeping scope and social importance. A swift cinematic history of the vast Mississippi system from pre-Columbian times to yesterday afternoon, an inventory of its bounty and its toll, a report of Government reclamation activity, The River...
Last week the head of Primal Energy cracked, fell to the ground, slightly injuring a passing woman pedestrian in the foot. This was all Rhodesian High Commissioner Stephen O'Keeffe needed. Promptly he ordered all six statues along the Strand front of the building taken down, withheld judgment on the rest...