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...summer in Hollywood, roistering with friends in the cinema colony. They have not been entirely misspent holidays. Some time ago he completed bronze busts of his friends Rouben Mamoulian and Edward G. Robinson, and last winter Cinemactress Marion Davies persuaded William Randolph Hearst to buy a heroic Lovet-Lorski Venus...
...Acquired by Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum and considered "the most important purchase of a single piece of art ever made by the museum" was (1 The Artist's Mother-Whistler, 2 American Gothic-Wood, 3 Mono. Lisa-da Vinci, 4 The Card Players-Cezanne, S Venus and the Lute Player-Titian...
...Venus and Adonis" (1598)--autographed by Sidney Lee; "Lucrece" (1594); "The Passionate Pilgrim" (1599); "Sonnets" (1609); and "Pericles" (1609). There is also a handsome modern edition (1895) of "A Midsummer Night's Dream," illustrated by Robert Anning Bell, and colored in, hand by Gloria Cardew...
...near-sighted eyes of posterity, historical figures are apt to loom larger and more beautiful than they do under the historian's microscope. To every true-blue Briton, Horatio Nelson was one of England's greatest heroes, and his beauteous Lady Hamilton the fitting Venus to his Mars. But not to the microscopic eye of Biographer Marjorie Bowen* whose tale is enough to turn a true-blue Briton purple or green, set Nelson himself whirling on his Trafalgar column...
...Paterson last week New Jersey's Alcohol Beverage Control Commissioner D. Frederick Burnett was asked to pass on the propriety of a barroom Venus that had outraged the sensibilities of a passing minister's wife. After personal inspection, Commissioner Burnett wrote to the complainant: "The painting is mediocre, the color flat, the style eclectic and the subject trite. I am not concerned, however, with artistry or the lack of it. ... There is no reason why places for the consumption of liquor should not be made comfortable and decorative. . . . Pictures, as well as flowers, may brighten a corner. "Obscene...