Word: altmans
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Summary: HARVARD VERMONT Pattison, Matursevitch, Dutton, l.f. r.f., Tupper, Winant, Pires Holland, Schroeder, Altman, r.f. l.f., Pires, Durfey, Sargent Sponaugle, Rauh, Upton, c. c., Durfey, Sargent Rageman, Appelbum, l.r. r.g. Taft Farrell, Huppuch, r.g. l.g., Taft, Tobin, Talber...
...Luana may seem less incongruous, more tuneful when heard removed from the setting of papier-mache palm trees, skirts of all grasses and emaciated, brown-powdered chorus boys. Robert Chisholm (Golden Dawn, Sweet Adeline}, as a drunken beachcomber, does some powerful chanting with "Son of the Sun." Ruth Altman, the latest find of Producer Hammerstein, a luscious-looking lady who sings well but whose speaking voice is throaty to the point of unintelligibility, is fairly satisfactory as the ill-starred princess. The vaudeville team of Jans & Whalen capers through some very thin comedy material, representing the inevitable U. S. Marines...
...were killed). Greatest general of those circulation wars was Max Annenberg, first for Hearst, then for the Tribune (he is now Liberty's circulation generalissimo-TIME, July 29). Many a name then or later famed in Chicago's gangland appeared on the payrolls of the newspapers-Gus Altman, Boston Tommy, the Delehanty brothers. Great wonder it would have been if such under-worldlings had not learned from their smart newspaper employers a lot about organized violence and contempt...
Thrice has the Metropolitan Museum of Art been notably, spectacularly enriched by the munificent bequests of great and rich collectors. The John Pierpont Morgan and Benjamin Altman collections, both given in 1913, spread paintings, carvings, sculpture, jewelry, porcelains, tapestries, furniture through long galleries for the benefit of the U. S. public. And all last week thousands of people shuffled back and forth through four galleries, two corridors, to see the latest, possibly the greatest of the museum's gifts. At one bound the Metropolitan, already an imposing pile, became one of the world's greatest museums...
...Spanish room contains Goyas, El Grecos and Zurbarans. Not startling are two Flemish rooms. The Dutch collection has numerous works by Hals and Vermeer and several Rembrandts. In the Altman collection are other Dutch, Italian and Spanish pictures...