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Alexandra, youngest of Tolstoy's daughters, has written the umpteenth story of her father's life, coincident with the publication of a new, grand-scale biography of Chekhov. Author Tolstoy was her father's secretary, and her book is a useful, bulky filing cabinet of Tolstoyana, though empty of literary substance. David Magarshack is a pundit of the Russian drama who has already written a life of Producer Stanislavsky and a study of Chekhov's plays. His huge, valuable Chekhov resembles Tolstoy only in that it, too. is more a receptacle for facts than a vehicle...
...sheer abstraction and mere representation. Fifty such men might have lifted the whole exhibition into brilliance; the few who are represented at Venice shine like lights in the prevailing gloom. Three of their works are reproduced opposite. Dufy's 41 pictures, dating back to 1904, prove for the umpteenth time his vintage quality. Partly crippled by arthritis, as Renoir was, he permits nothing but ease and gaiety to show in his work, the same effect that Renoir always achieved. Hopper's 20 contributions are comparatively dour, and less deft, but their directness and monumentality may help earn...
...doubt this is about the umpteenth letter you will have received concerning the Sept. 10 article on the tragic ergot poisoning incident in France...
...Assembly resolution entitled "United Action for Peace." It recommended that the Security Council's permanent members (the U.S., Britain, France, Russia and China) "meet and discuss ... all problems which are likely to threaten international peace . . ." The big powers would report back to the Assembly the outcome of their umpteenth get-together...
Booked on charges of "giving an indecent performance" for the umpteenth time since she took up fandangling, Sally Rand protested, "I'm sorry, I just don't tell my age." (Milwaukee Policewoman Geraldine Sampon, who had found Sally "nude as could be" in a lakefront carnival show, finally got her to admit...