Art: Hollywood to the Rescue

In the largest theatre in the world, the International Music Hall of Manhattan's Rockefeller Center, workmen with buckets of white lead were busy last week pasting up the world's largest mural painting, a curved 60-by-40-ft. canvas by Ezra Winter, showing an old man gazing thoughtfully from a cliff at a procession of winged horses and muscular nudes swooping up into the sky. This picture is called "The Fountain of Youth." Workmen have also just set up, in the ladies' room of Rockefeller Center's 3,500-seat cinema theatre, an illuminated colored glass panel 18...

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