Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...guise of a meeting on "The Aesthetic Factor in Education", the 46th annual Conference of the Harvard Teachers' Association will be entertained Saturday afternoon by Pauline Chellis, well-known concert dancer, at Sanders Theater. Miss Chellis will feature a discussion lead by Dr. Payson Smith on the place of art in education. Although dancing is an innovation in the Association's policies, the "lecture demonstration" is expected to be of considerable value, since Miss Chellis is one of the "foremost educators" in the field of modern dance...
There was more truth than poetry in Professor Opdycke's announcement in the opening lecture of Fine Arts 1d that half the course would concern architecture, half painting, and a quarter sculpture. Every lecture in the course is necessarily presented at a speed rivaling Floyd Gibbons and Ted Husing at their best. The consequence is that only a few salient suggestions can be scribbled down by the student concerning even the most significant works of art, and the chances of a man's choosing the most important features for notation are at best slim...
...course, entitled History of Medieval, Renaissance and Modern Art, is one of the most outstandingly useful and important in the Department or in the College. Fleeting study is attempted of all the great masters and monuments since the Roman era, and Professor Opdycke's conduct of the course is masterly. There is no necessity, however, other than considerations of economy, for the compression of such significant subject matter into the scope of a single half-year. No course in the College could be more deserving of further attention, and few men would begrudge the extra hours spent in handling this...
...mystic thing about "The Mystic Mountain" is how it manages to overcome its obvious deficiencies and turn into a very passable effort at cinematic art. The effect of the really fine photography tends to be destroyed by overemphasis. Much of the acting is of the strong, silent variety, although not obvious mugging. There is a thunderstorm scene where the lightning blinds you and the sound effects resemble those of a Coney Island Tunnel of Horrors, Yet the final impression is a good...
...complete sell-out for the performances of T. S. Eliot's poetic drama "Murder in the Cathedral", Friday and Saturday, has resulted in arrangements for two additional 9 o'clock performances in the Fogg Art Museum on Monday and Tuesday evenings...