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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Strapping (5 ft. 9 in.) Actress Channing herself represents a triumph of miscasting. She can be a very funny female indeed, but in Blondes she suggests the football-playing "heroine" of a varsity show more than the deceptively fragile Lorelei. With her tremendous saucer eyes, her exaggerated mincing steps, her...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Musical in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

Metropole suggested that a Ross by any other name is just no Ross at all; nor, despite Lee Tracy's expert performance, any real fun. Besides shackling The New Yorker to a leaden plot, it spoofed it with a stridency better suited to the old Police Gazette. Metropole did...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Play in Manhattan, Dec. 19, 1949 | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

"The long established world leader, French art, is now meeting face to face with its postwar challenger, the art of America." So said the catalogue foreword to an exhibition of 50 French and 50 American paintings that opened in a Manhattan gallery last week. Culled from some 10,000 entries...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Merry Christmas | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

They made a surprisingly fine exhibition, and one that proved that subjective moderns need not be stultified by the task of painting theme pictures. The French, it appeared, were still champs: no U.S. entry could match the tonal subtlety of the winter landscapes by France's Christian Caillard and...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Merry Christmas | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

The top prizes, $3,750 each, went to Fred Conway of St. Louis and France's Edouard Goerg, for pictures that most critics thought inferior. Goerg's Nativity with Birds was as stickily sweet as creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Merry Christmas | 12/19/1949 | See Source »

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