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Eliot House news-gobblers have been dragging their poor dining-room paper-vendor for a block of brick smokehouses during the last few weeks...
Another work of great interest is the "Flower Vendor" by Raphael Soyer. It gives a scene of typical New York types, with emphasis on facial expressions and characteristic gestures and dress. Every face is carefully modeled, much attention being paid to individual features. An arresting point in the painting is the incongruity of the shabbily dressed man holding clumsily the luxurious and fragile flowers, whose bright red contrast strongly with the dingy black and brown of his dress. This red and the red of the handkerchief in his pocket put life into the scene and bring the whole into focus...
...anyone suppose that the delicatessen dealer who buys an option on 500 bales of cotton ever intends to take delivery of it or that the salesgirl who acquires a future in 1,000 bushels of wheat will ultimately bake bread or make pancakes with the resultant flour?* Let the vendor of an option establish that he is pure in heart and the law takes no account of the base motives of those who may deal with...
Millions in the Air (Paramount) is another picture about radio amateur hours. In it the girl (Wendy Barrie) is a rich soap-maker's daughter who attempts the amateur hour to convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile...
From cubbyhole on Boylston Street to soap box on Boston Common is the latest excursion of Philip Francis Samuels, Baconian scholar extraordinary, author and vendor of "Man vs. Ape in the Play Earco Rammed"--or positive proof that Bacon wrote Shakspere...