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...Carnegie International show in Pittsburgh last autumn, visitors in the German room stopped before an arresting painting that Critic Edward Alden Jewell described as "beautiful, breathless, haunted and haunting." It was Along the Shore, by a 33-year-old Munich artist named Edgar Ende, and although it won no prize, many a visitor wondered about the work of the artist who created its sombre vision of gloomy sky and water, its statuelike group of horses...
...Narrows of New York Harbor last week and eased into quarantine, paced an authentic-looking Viking. He was Able Seaman Eugen Knutsen, burdened for a reception tableau with a shirt of mail and the weight of 938 years of Norse legend. At quarantine, Viking Knutsen received a visitor. She was Rosebud Yellow Robe, sprightly, college-bred great grandniece of Sitting Bull. Last week Rosebud mislaid her peace pipe but gave sheepish Leif a beaded tobacco pouch and the welcoming ceremony was over...
...visitor sees a fine front. There is no open evidence of constraint, repression, or fear. Whatever it may be worth, money flows freely. The people are well dressed, well fed, fairly well housed. At parades, reviews, unveilings, cornerstone Mayings, a, busy, eager nation is always on its toes to cheer Mussolini, the King, and the flag, even though every mail box is sealed tight with steel baffles when the two heads of the Empire visit their loyal Milano. Bombs and infernal machines have exploded in these boxes. For ten days preceding Hitler's arrival no parcels will be delivered...
...Vagabond is uneasy. He would like to throw back the covers and cool off, but he doesn't quite dare with such an inquisitive visitor making the rounds of his belongings. The winged lancer squares off on the desk calendar and snorts contemptuously at a picture of the Vagabond's best girl. Bored, he revs up his motor and decides to leaves. He mistakes the mirror for a window and is quite some shaken up by the minor crackup which ensues. Then, having been aroused, he changes instantly from a disturbance into a menace. He runs out his stinger...
...Glyndebourne opened its fifth season of opera (eight weeks), fashionable Londoners piled into trains and automobiles for their annual pilgrimage. The 600 seats in Glyndebourne's diminutive opera house cost between $7.50 and $10 apiece, and dinner at Glyndebourne served between the acts adds another $2 to the visitor's bill...