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...Bailey's face (on your cover), with its sternly chiseled features and cold, probing eyes, is a haunting one. Here is a man who has looked-literally-into other men's hearts; yet it is hard to conceive of his yielding to the more tender emotions, such as love and compassion, commonly supposed to spring from that most mysterious of human organs. Why don't you print a picture of him in a business suit, or doesn't he ever wear anything but his surgeon's trappings...
Modigliani's sad and tender Elvira, perhaps depressed at the sight of the dying man painting her, was done in his characteristic arabesque style. By the time he painted this picture, "Modi" no longer had the strength to stagger around Paris with Utrillo. each toasting the other as "the greatest painter in the world" and "the greatest drinker." A few months after he finished the picture the painters, sculptors, poets and models of Montmartre and Montparnasse gathered for his funeral, and an enormous cortege solemnly followed the hearse to the cemetery. All along the road the same policemen...
...Manzu won the grand prize for Italian sculpture at the Venice Biennale in 1948, was commissioned by the Vatican in 1950 to do a bronze door at St. Peter's, had a recent showing in Manhattan, and is now represented at the Museum of Modern Art by his tender, elegant Portrait of a Lady. Discussing his own work, Manzu says: "Each man has his way of expressing the poetry within him. Some sculptors try the abstract way. My way is the figurative way." His series of religious figures and his robed female figures and nudes have dignity and grace...
...reality." The reality in this version of the oft-revised play was the revolt of fellow Hungarians. Until his final hour, the pacifist-minded doctor could see little purpose in getting involved, though it was violence to achieve freedom. As the hero's son, Bradford Dillman, 26, was tender and affecting, but in summing up his parents he also summed up what was wrong with the whole show: "They are wonderful people, but they are unreal and they don't really live in this country -in this time...
...seen to it that the picture comes to a bloody climax in one of the most thrillingly realistic bullfights -starring the famous Mexican matador, Fermin Rivera-ever seen in a commercial film. It's great stuff for the youngsters, but apt to be rough on people of more tender years...