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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...curious reputation of 73-year-old Louis Eilshemius, whose painting was first honored by the National Academy of Design in 1892 and has since passed through various degrees of fantasy toward a vanishing point of artistic merit, received the support of a carefully pruned exhibition at the Kleemann Galleries. Billed as "All of Eilshemius," the show covers the years from 1884 to 1909. Some of Eilshemius' "twilight" paintings and landscapes still looked remarkable to connoisseurs last week, as most of his nudes looked incredibly vapid...
...field of research, which he calls Parapsychology, Dr. Rhine is the most conspicuous university investigator in the U. S. His tools and methods are essentially simple. Prime piece of apparatus is a pack of cards bearing five designs: a circle, a star, a plus sign, a rectangle, a band of three wavy lines. The pack consists of 25 cards, five cards of each design. To observe clairvoyance, he asks his subjects to identify the cards one by one as the pack lies face down. To observe telepathy they are asked to call cards imagined in the mind of another person...
...insurance, banking, cost accounting) but turned back to the laboratory is Physicist Harvey Brace Lemon of the University of Chicago. A onetime student of the late great Albert Abraham Michelson, now a bustling, stout, pink-faced professor of 54, Lemon tracked down the cause of bands in comet tails, designed the spectrophotometer which bears his name, adapted coconut shell charcoal for gas masks during the War. President Hutchins told him off to design a survey course in physical science which would attract rather than repel students majoring in other fields. Believing that most survey courses were "not worth the powder...
...Toledo Museum is housed in a long building of white marble and considerable magnificence on Monroe Street in the residential part of town. Its severely Hellenic design is carried through to the two new wings and the auditorium, which is called the "peristyle" and is a fairly exact reproduction of a Greek outdoor theatre. Detroit's late symphony conductor. Ossip Gabrilowitsch, thought its acoustics unsurpassed in the U. S.. and Theatre Critic fohn Mason Brown shared the transports of classical scholars when it was opened in 1933. The Museum's collection is as exceptional as its building...
...head for two years. Eying the booming counter and cafeteria business during Depression, he concluded that Childs, with its managerial overhead already provided for, could offer the cafeteria trade a little more luxury at the same prices. Host, Inc. will try to do so. Swankly modernistic in design, Hosts will have concealed kitchens, service at U-shaped counters. Food is to be identical with Childs food but with less variety and no table-d'hote meals. Prices will be about 20% less. Childs griddlecakes cost 25?. The Hosts will sell them for 15?. Hosts will accommodate...