In Vittorio's Slip Stream

Paris' best-known set of male bangs has been replaced by a stiff military haircut. From Tokyo last week came word that Tsugouharu Foujita, famed 55-year-old Japanese painter of cats and catlike women, has left Montparnasse for his native land, there joined the Army to paint pictures of air battles. Gone with his bangs is the costume which won him Deauville's vote for its best-dressed man in 1929--leopard-skin trousers, grey suspenders, no shirt, silk hat. Gone also are the fashionable ladies who paid through the pretty nose for his paintings. The Japanese Army pays him $33.76 a month.

Pilot Vittorio Mussolini once gulped with delight as he watched his bombs burst amid Abyssinian tribesmen with "the impression of a budding rose." Foujita thinks that better artists than Vittorio should see sights like that. He plans to make at least 100 flights in warplanes. Then, he hopes, he may be able to "represent bombing situations" and "catch the true colors of clouds."

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