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...much-heralded "Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti" along with ten other watercolors of the "Dreyfus Cane" by Ben Shahu have arrived at the galleries of the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art and will remain on display until October...
...portraits of the six witnesses who bought eels from Vanzetti on December 24, and the three eminent men who formed the Lowell Committee, are all executed in the same monotone. Only in the lupine eye of Vanzetti, and the good natured face of Governor Fuller does the artist reveal Life triumphant over Obsession. Such phases as the family of the condemned man as they were in Italy, and after the verdict had been pronounced heighten the scientific interest...
Although almost all of the pictures depicting the Sacco-Vanzetti affair merge on caricature, there is more of art than mere clever distortion in these gouaches. When the exhibit appeared at the Downtown Gallery in New York City, many were inclined to dismiss the whole of Shahn's work as comic-strip treatment of more serious topics, yet even the poignancy that speaks from each picture is testimony that there is something more permanent than grim humor here...
...chance it has been construed that the show is being given because of the recent reawakening of the Sacco-Vanzetti controversy, the Society wishes to recall that the show was planned and announced last spring in its catalogue, and that the artist's eighty different treatment of the Dreyfus Case is equally stressed...
...middle of the night, a bomb placed under the rear porch wrecked the Worcester, Mass, home of 74-year-old Judge Webster B. Thayer, smashed hundreds of windows in the neighborhood, roused the entire city. Five years ago Judge Thayer condemned Radicals Sacco & Vanzetti to death. Despite hundreds of threatening letters, this was the first attempt on his life. Mrs. Thayer and maid were buried under debris, taken to a hospital not seriously injured. The judge was untouched. Said he: "They can't kill me that easily. I hate to think because a man does his duty...