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After that, Kootz's own local stable of U.S. painters could only irritate, not shock. Fernand Leger brought up the rear with one of his obsessive puzzles: three ropey girls tied in a Gordian knot. Venus de Milo was obviously as out of fashion as a pretty knee...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: The Women | 9/15/1947 | See Source »

Mary Pickford was sued by Director Gregory La Cava for exactly $1,653,750. After "temperament clashes," Mary had broken their oral contract to film Broadway's One Touch of Venus, Gregory said, and sighed: "I'm rather impractical about these things...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People: People, Jul. 28, 1947 | 7/28/1947 | See Source »

...their myths, Etna was deeply encrusted with legend. Somewhere under the sea, the lame god Vulcan (for whom volcanoes are named) had his workshop. It was said that the smoke and flame from his forge, where he devised various contraptions to annoy his estranged mother (Juno) and his wife (Venus), roared up through Etna's crater...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Upstart & Old Timer | 3/10/1947 | See Source »

...Manhattan, women were offered a new piece of boudoir equipment-a transparent, zippered hood which covered the entire head, looked like something designed to be worn in the rarefied atmosphere of the planet Venus. It was supposed to protect them from the horrors of "messy makeup" when they slipped their dresses...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: MANNERS & MORALS: Americana, Mar. 3, 1947 | 3/3/1947 | See Source »

...founders of the experimental Group Theater and adding to it the sound showmanship she developed during her lengthy sojourn with the Theater Guild, Cheryl Crawford has repeatedly managed to combine originality with professional slickness in her productions. Such was the case with "One Touch of Venus," with the American Repertory Theater, and now with "Brigadoon," a musical fantasy beautifully set in the Scottish highlands by Oliver Smith and full of brilliant Agnes De Mille Scottish dances...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: The Playgoer | 2/14/1947 | See Source »

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