Art: High-Brow Publicity

If a Hollywood producer can be considered highbrow, suave, grey-eyed Walter Wanger is it. Two months ago, when he was working on an ambitious picture called The Long Voyage Home (based on Eugene O'Neill's Moon of the Caribbees, and Other Plays of the Sea), Producer Wanger decided to show Hollywood and the world a new high in artistic publicity. With the help of smart Manhattan Gallery Director Reeves Lewenthal, he hired nine of the best U. S. painters he could get to go to Hollywood and paint real high-brow pictures of scenes from the...

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