VERNONIA EAGLE, VERNONIA, OREGON
FRIDAY, JANUARY 21, 1938
PAGE ELEVEN
4.
WHO’S NEWS
THIS WEEK...
By Lemuel F. Parton
MEW YORK.—It seems possible
that Rockefeller Center was
trying for a delicate cultural bal
ance in getting three alien artists
to do its murals.
Right, Left
Right, left and
center, in the or
and Center
der named, Jose
Repretented
Maria Sert, Diego
Rivera and Frank Brangwyn, were
the muralists.
There was an inevitable clash,
and now, after five years, a compro
mise. Lenin’s head, by the hard-
boiled, hard-bitten Mexican Rivera,
blocked out in 1934, has been re
placed by a conventional mural by
the Spanish Sr. Sert, with the ortho
dox theme of America’s continuing
development along the old lines. The
compromise appears in Sr. Serfs
restrained sepia monochrome, in
stead of his usual lavish outpouring
of gold and scarlet, verdant green
and ecstatic blue.
Sr. Sert is the most millionairish
of all living painters. Here he pipes
down. If we didn’t go left with Len
in, our new era isn’t going to be
as gaudy as the last one.
It will be a sober, industrious,
thrifty, monochrome age, with no
more high kicking and low think
ing. That seems to be what Sr.
Sert and the Rockefeller Center
people are saying.
When the big, booming, sixty-one-
year-old Spanish painter is going
strong, he makes Vernonese just
a wet wash with a touch of bluing.
He was a regular stand-by and
emergency painter for his friend,
King Alfonso. “Con mucho gusto,”
he can swing the whole spectrum,
with bold, regal effects which are
the delight of kings.
He has done many magnificent
rooms in Europe, including the Ma
drid chapel of the duke of Alba,
now Franco’s commercial envoy to
England, and Sir Phillip Sassoon’s
resplendent ballrooms. His first
exhibition in this country was in
1924, when he received prolonged
critical salvos.
He was born in Barcelona of the
ancient Spanish gentry, and studied
in Paris in his ear
Sert Swings
ly youth.
From the first,
Spectrum
he developed bold
With Gusto
ness and exuber-
ance, both in color and technique.
Briffault’s pre-war Europe—which
was to have gone on forever, but
didn’t—knew him for its very own.
His new monochrome fits an age
“sicklied o’er with the pale cast of
thought.”
In the current argument between
government and business, it is in
teresting to note that the temple of
business gets back to the Muses
and the classical symbols of work
and labor, after its brief leftward
deviation in 1933. In Washington,
such bold innovators as Henry Var-
num Poor and George Biddle still
state tortuous new themes in the
government murals. But there’s not
so much splash in those Rockefeller
Center murals as there might have
been in, say, 1928.
yOUNG BURGESS MEREDITH,
1 at the age of twenty-eight, is
picked to run Actors Equity associa-
tion, for a time at least. A star on
Broadway, a coun
Meredith
try squire, a Hol
Was Tossed
lywood success,
he has had more
on Upgrade
tossing around
than a roller-coaster addict, with
the up-grade all in the depression
years.
In Lake wood, a suburb of Cleve
land, his father was a doctor and
his grandfather an evangelist. His
Uncle Joe, whom he greatly ad
mired, was in vaudeville.
He washed dishes and tended fur
naces during one sad and lonely
year at Amherst, ran a haberdash
ery shop with his brother in Cleve
land, went bankrupt, was a reporter
on the Stamford Advocate, until
they caught him at it, sold roofing,
vacuum cleaners and cosmetics,
worked in Macy’s department store,
sang in church choirs for $4 a Sun
day, lived a week on breakfast food
samples, and was for a time one of
the migrant army of jobless youth.
The depression brought him luck.
In 1929, he got a letter of introduc
tion to Eva le Gallienne and a pay
less job as an apprentice actor. His
climb was slow.
Depression
He first attained
high visibility in
Was Really
“She Loves Me
Lady Luck
“Not,” in 1933. He
clinched his gains in his three Max
well Anderson plays, "Winterset,”
“High Tor,” and “Star Wagon.”
His estate is near that of Mr. An
derson in Rockland county. New
York, where he is very busy with
house-building, dogs, and books. He
has an eager, avid mind, buzzing
with new ideas.
He is a faithful intellectual under
study of the older Mr. Anderson and
his genius chimes ih perfectly with
Mr. Anderson’s exalted blank verse
dramaturgy.
He is five feet, seven inches tall,
weighs 135 pounds and is no matinee
idol—listed briefly at booking
agency as "blond and hamely”
when he first went after a job in the
theater. His wife is the distin
guished actress, Margaret Perry.
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