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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Current with the Philadelphia Museum report was an article in December Atlantic Monthly by Frank Jewett Mather Jr., onetime editorial writer and art critic (New York Evening Post), Professor of Art at Princeton University. Pleading for smaller museums, he tilted at the enormous Metropolitan (Manhattan) and the Pennsylvania Museums of...
"Is it not the moment to inquire whether this (the recent rapid expansion of large museums) is a wholesome . . . growth; or whether it tends to that form of national elephantiasis . . . designated . . . jumboism? . . . It may be maintained that for the special student it is actually an advantage to make . . . comparisons . . . under...
"In general, the surplusage and consequent confusion of our great . . . art museums is a matter of daily and just comment. Moreover, the prevalent jumboism encourages capricious, ill advised exhibition . . . to adorn . . . great spaces. . . . When I first saw the Pennsylvania Museum, it contained the queerest hall I ever visited. . . . The hall...
Many a time has Captain Katzenjammer* famed obese comic-strip caperer, deceived his frau by making a balloon facsimile of himself, painting his vapid likeness on it, stuffing it into bed. Last week a helium-inflated Captain 50 feet tall floated off over Long Island. Fashioned by Tony Sarg, Manhattan...
On a field frozen hard as a state road eleven West Pointers in gold sweaters played all afternoon without a substitution against a Notre Dame team that has the finest record in the U. S. Time and again Army tacklers broke through to down shifty Moon Mullins and Sprinter Jack...