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...hand to referee a cardful of amateur fights in Philadelphia was as rough a roster as ever climbed into a ring. In honor of the occasion they squared off for a few photographic passes : double-chinned Mickey Walker, looking very little like the "Toy Bulldog" terror of the '20s; Politicuffing Restaurateur Jack Dempsey (lightly supporting Lou Salica, current bantam champ); leering Jimmy Braddock, erstwhile rags-to-riches Heavyweight Champion (with Tommy Forte, Salica's hottest rival, on his shoulders); and skinny, Texas-drawling Lew Jenkins, who can lick all lightweights...
Guatemala-born Merida, who for '14 years had painted nothing but abstractions inspired by French modernists during his visit to Europe, surprised Manhattan visitors to the Buchholz Gallery by a complete change of style. His perspectiveless, daguerreotypical canvases, brightly colored and surrealistically childlike, depicted toy hons and paper-doll-like human figures sedately waving the stumps of amputated arms. Critics were not sure that Painter Merida's new style was any improvement over the old, but found his ashy reds, yellows and blues loudly decorative...
...Siboney. Miss Helen Cederlind, a pretty Norwegian, who was going to the U. S. to marry a U. S. Army engineer, promised to keep an eye on him. Everybody kept an eye on him. A Frenchman played a game with Axel: he could make one of Axel's toys disappear, and tell Axel, "Whistle for it." Then Axel's toy would miraculously reappear from under the Frenchman's coat. The game broke up when Axel grabbed the Frenchman's hat and hurled it overboard, shrieking: "Whistle...
About Fantasia: Probably no single occasion has demonstrated more compellingly the visual possibilities in great music. When you or I listen to the Nutcracker Suite, we have a vague picture of toy flutes, Chinamen, Arabians, sugarplum fairies--anything the program tells us to hear. When Walt Disney hears it, there are created whole new imaginative worlds of dewdrops, mushrooms, tadpoles, thistles, and autumn leaves. The more visual-minded you are, probably the more you will enjoy Fantasia; plenty of people on the other hand are going to find the patterns on the screen nothing but a distraction. Particularly...
...demands a water chaser, which he uses as a finger bowl; with each drink he requires a fresh chaser, because "I never like to bathe in the same water twice." He is allergic to the mere presence of children. When he spies an urchin in his bank, brandishing a toy pistol, Fields pounces like a terrier on a rat, has to be pulled off by the child's mother. He follows his steady nose through the most sidesplitting chase sequences since the days of the Keystone cops. He is surrounded but not obscured by such accomplices as Franklin Pangborn...