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...years ago, prospering Watercolorist Dehn had a yen to go back to his crayons and litho stone. Last week the 60 lithographs he had finished in his spare moments were on exhibit at a Manhattan gallery. A good many of them were in his old vein: New Yorkerish jibes at solemn nuns, nightclubbers & dilettantes. But most gallerygoers preferred his Minnesota farmyards and Colorado mountain landscapes. In them, Dehn proved once again that he knows how to give black the coolness and weight of real shadows, and how to make white blaze and sparkle the way light does...
...Rodes Arnold's "Blast of the March Wind" is a simple and deeply felt picture of failure and bereavement, inconclusive but richly detailed. Only the Harry Brown story, a not quite "New Yorkerish" piece about a blonde and her husband in a tourist cabin, is unsatisfactory. All the stories, then, have it in common to be on a high technical level, to be not particularly "contemporary" in interest, and to seem not to deal with material that comes very close to the writer as person...
...violent death. "The Blue Bird" by H. P. Coolidge places a troupe of Russian ballet dancers in an American hotel and sketches with humor and feeling the aversion of a lesser Nijinsky tragedy. The third fictional item, "I said my Penance" by Peul Clark, is a light, almost New-Yorkerish vignette of a Catholic college student setting his rather elastic conscience aright for "Easter duty...
...whole issue, is, in fact, far more New Yorkerish than any issue of that esteemed contemporary journal that has yet come to hand...