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Melancholia, in a Swamp looked little different from dozens of other muzzy abstractions. When Sidney Key, the curator of the Toronto Art Gallery, received it in the mail last month, along with a request for some "constructive criticism," he drafted a tactful reply. "You are considerably interested," he wrote Robert Lealess of Vancouver, "in a variety of effects that can be arrived at through experimental use of your materials, and you seem to be aware of the accidental effects that can result from lines, calligraphy, blots and the use of a spray...
...Vancouver, 17-year-old Robert Lealess read Curator Key's comments with glee. He handed the picture and the curator's letter to the local press, explaining that Melancholia in a Swamp was nothing but a piece of cardboard that had been used by commercial artists for wiping their brushes and testing their spray guns. All Lealess did was pick it out of the wastebasket, mount it and give it a title...
...days later, torrential rains poured down on the territory. Rivers overflowed their banks, lakes poured over and inundated the valleys, swamp waters rose over the roads winding through them. Borne on the flood, crocodiles slithered everywhere, seeking-said the terrified natives-revenge on the white man for his sacrilege...
Distant Drums (Warner) is the Technicolored record of a daring exploit by Gary Cooper in the Florida of 1840, clearing the way for General Zachary Taylor's victory in the seven-year Seminole War. Swamp Fighter Cooper is an Army captain who lives among friendly Indians and designs his own uniforms out of buckskin. With a handful of men, he sneaks across Lake Okeechobee and blows up a strategic Spanish fort...
Pogo is a bright-eyed, cuddly little critter, as amiably shapeless as a Teddy bear, with a head like a hairy zero, a nose like an overboiled yam. He lives somewhere in the happy absences of Georgia's vast Okefenokee swamp, with his friends. Among them: Albert, a raffish alligator who smokes cigars, courts a skunk with a French accent, and describes himself as "handsome, brilliant and modest to a fare-thee-well"; Howland Owl, a foolish old bird who crosses a "gee-ranium" plant with a yew tree, hoping to get a "yew-ranium" bush for an atom...