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...from a topic they thought had been abandoned, picking up the conversation precisely where it had left off. Scholarly by temperament, a sagacious commentator on Latin poets, Greek dramatists, French fiction, he combines these academic pursuits with a love of the theatre, writes comedies (The Crime in the Whistler Room, This Room, This Gin and These Sandwiches] in which characters akin to those of F. Scott Fitzgerald are shown wound up with less outspoken intellectuals. In his desire to see the U. S. at firsthand Critic Wilson once bought a motorcycle, gave it up after he had run into...
...getting higher. In February the superb exhibition of pictures by Vincent van Gogh, assembled by Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art in 1935, closed in Manhattan after being seen by 900,000 people in nine cities, a record for traveling shows in the U. S. surpassed only by Whistler's Mother (TIME, Nov. 14, 1932). In November the all-pervading Federal Art Project of the Works Progress Administration completed its first two years. Among its accomplishments were a much-publicized renaissance of mural painting, a great work of national scholarship in the Index of American Design,* free...
...long ago an interviewer spoke of Snow White as a cartoon, and reported that Mr. Disney retorted: "It's no more a cartoon than a painting by Whistler is a cartoon." The remark, if made, sounds pompous, out of character. The Rembrandt conception fits better-the conception of an artist, single of purpose, utterly unselfconscious, superlatively good at and satisfied in his work, a thoroughgoing professional, just gagging it up and letting the professors tell him what he's done...
Fortnight ago Poet Auden, escorted by Poet Laureate John Masefield, was presented to King George VI, to receive The King's Gold Medal. This award to young poets, instituted three years ago by George V, first given to conservative, conventional Poet Laurence Whistler, was withheld last year...
Throughout the rest of London only three incidents marred the solemnity of of the two-minute silence. At Ludgate Circus an iron-lipped whistler continued to shrill Night Must Fall until a crowd threatened to lynch hihim, and at Spitalfield Market Church the sentimental silence was shattered by a realist who suddenly shouted: "The dead are all right. What about me? I haven't had any breakfast!" Police had to rescue...