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...Poetry in Glass and Color" was the topic of a talk given in Widener Poetry Room yesterday by Charles J. Connick, America's foremost stained-glass artist. Connick maintains that colored glass has poetic qualities because of its constantly changing moods--moods which vary with every kind of weather and each position of the sun. Also, he says, distance changes the effect of the glass by softening harsh lines which are very obvious at short range...
Harris De Haven Connick the Fair opened with $4,000,000 more debt than anticipated and it could not have been completed in time for the opening had not Standard Oil Co. of California and Pacific Gas & Electric Co. put up loans of $800,000 and $200,000 respectively...
...made nothing from operations and was practically ready for receivership. Early in May the two most interested members of its board of management virtually became its receivers: cagey Standard Oil of California Director Philip Halsey Patchin and solid Pacific Gas & Electric President James Byers Black. They fired Director Connick (annual salary: $17,500) and hired*(at no salary) a new director, smart, baldish Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator...
...Exposition was already playing to small audiences before the Fair opened, it is doubtful that transcontinental competition has hurt San Francisco's show so much as lack of showmanship. To cure that defect the Exposition last week took a promising new managing director to succeed the dethroned Harris Connick (TIME, May 15). Smart, baldish New Director Dr. Charles Henry Strub, onetime ball player and chain dentist, present-day Santa Anita race-track operator, is all for brisker ballyhoo and livelier amusements. He may yet make Treasure Island a bigger attraction. Most notable of its present sights...
...year Maurice Grosser, a "natural," had been given an exhibition at Harvard and had even sold some watercolors. He graduated with honors in mathematics, which he has never used since except for reading himself to sleep. First as a workman in the stained glass factory of famed Charles J. Connick; then on a Harvard fellowship in Italy, where he lived with a peasant family in Anticoli and the goat's milk stuck to his teeth; then employed by Muralists Victor White and Barry Faulkner to put vague decorations on expensive Manhattan walls, Maurice Grosser adjusted himself to his talents...