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Since 1930, when he had his first exhibition in Paris, Grosser has enjoyed a quiet -and growing-reputation in Europe, almost none in the U. S., where he is known, if at all, as a collaborator with his old friend, Composer Virgil Thomson, on the Gertrude Stein operetta, Four Saints m Three Acts. Yet Maurice Grosser's painting belongs to a school which is just what the doctor ordered for critics who carry on indiscriminately about "modernism" in art (see p. 36). Grosser owes nothing to conventional impulses yet is a firmly "representational," sensitive draftsman. His particular passion, however...
Balletomanes were charmed by the curtain raiser to the Benét-Moore opera. Called Filling Station, it was a fantasy danced by the Ballet Caravan to polished music by Virgil Thomson. This week the American Lyric Theatre presents more ballet and another light opera, Susanna, Don't You Cry, constructed around the beloved melodies of Stephen Foster...
Died. Sir Basil Home Thomson, 77, onetime Assistant Commissioner, Metropolitan Police (Scotland Yard), onetime bigwig in the British secret service; suddenly; in London. Sir Basil dearly loved to read & write detective stories, led an adventuresome life himself. Son of a late Archbishop of York, he was successively a rancher in Iowa, Prime Minister of Tonga (Friendly Islands), Governor of Great Britain's famed Dartmoor Prison. Highspot of his career; tracking down Mata Hari, whom he described as a dowdy, middle-aged woman devoid of charm...
...poster included distortions of names such as "Felix Finkleberger" and "Of Of Goldstein". Stating definitely that the poster was not anti-Semitic Hart said, "One might argue that it is anti-Irish, because the name Thomson was distorted, or anti-Russian or anti-German. If so, well then it might be called anti-Semitic, for among the twenty names ridiculed, two happened to be Jews...
...foggy day last week three sandaled elephants, followed by Cinemactor ("Elephant Boy") Sabu in a Rolls-Royce, ambled from St. Katherine's Docks to Mincing Lane with 37 silver and chromium chests of tea. Auctioneer William J. Thomson, grandson of the 1839 William J., knocked them down at prices ranging from $6,000 for the silver to $100 for the chromium to bigwig tea merchants, brokers and producers. Thus celebrated was the Empire Tea Centenary; thus furthered was a publicity drive to spur Britain's great tea trade...