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MOVING PICTURE WORLD
I)(((iiil)cr 18, 1926
Masterpieces Supersede Old "One Sheet**
Heal art works grace the modern temple of motion pictures. On the ri(jhl it "I'ollfrwina 'I he Jloundt," by I.. Stone. On thf Meyer's "7 he l amily I^orlrait," both of which adorn the foyer of the new I'aramouni I heatrt in New York.
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Where Exhibitors Once Used Cheap Posters, They Now Exhibit Striking Copies or Sontetimes Famous
Originals by Artists of World Wide Fame
/ABB^ IME wa* when the manager of a picfl turc theatre felt the need of iome^■•^ 'hing more clalKiratc than framed one-sheet* of the »tar« for hit theatre decorations and took an innocent pride in murals, often done by his sign painter, suggestive of the old-fashioned tea stor'->..
Paramount It Eumpie
In the present 'lay of million dollar »ni^ll houses and larger ones cotting many mil lions, it is but natural that the art work should keep pace with the other improvements, and in the new Puramo'in* ThfdXrt there are more than sixty m from artists of l*oth the R'> ''d otir own National Acaderri/ , n.' n v.fiose names are known the art world over and
who ar': ■ by wo: achiever.'.' • a finer colle' • a?/ly thit col!':
>.T:y turn i;nder ti^ ' v
'rd in thit palatial bttilding means the least of their
duplicated
. ,| , r :irid in the galleries giving up'<n ^..artment. Most of tli<-iri have .1 niches which permit* Ihem to be given a light treatment superi/^r to anything obUinable in the u\'ial ga'lcry, where ■a single lighting must suffice l<'r the entire ' ollecticm,
SV/t to be outd'-r ■ •' ' '
N'tw Orleans ; a :
■■A'.n tif. lilt.]'*'': in
year by , ..«i'l», Jr., and . /
CopiM Arc Marvel '/<j>
Some of th' •.j'-i '/(pi,
I«'ec»ou« to b': , 'b« priv
tor, but so wei. ■ '.'..'It tbe spin' ',i ' .' original has been fully '.a>igbl, 1'o all intents the pi'.lurn are a» '/'autiful as the origin»h, f'/r the iK'/ugKt i it Master has b'-en •ranif'-rr'-'! •', 'V,' r*< /. ■ ■■,,>.
I '/T example, llicre are nice "/pi's from Kiibcns which, In the origir.al would probably exceed in value (he entire cost of th« theatre. Copies may suggett inf'-tiorily, but there exist men v/lio have spent their livei C'pying one artist, or even a few example* of that single painter who i >in produre work barely to be 'I'-lerfed from the griiiiiiie.
Show Fin* Statuary
In addili'^n there are works <il the mod' ■Ti inasi'-rs and some woiiderliil sliituary '.;/ r< pr'/'lii» ii''fi» of Canova's famous I , ,1.1 liotiaparle" and his "Venus uiii\ the lialb." 'Ilic Venus of Medi'i Is also repro'lu'ed as some omkmi^iIs by modern Italian artists.
It is a far cry from the Ihrre ^olw one
r but no more than
.1 itiipr'/venieiii in pie
At present III' (i'--,My in I
' Hires stand prse* w.iil<»n of art Iressy '/Illy li-ad th* way frtr rHher*
ill'/ will follow.