Word: detroit
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...normal number of performances in any opera company regardless of seat price. Regarding the statement "The singing was sure but rarely exciting," we submit for your consideration our past records as shown by audience and press enthusiasm of such large cities as Chicago, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Detroit, etc. You always seem desirous of correcting erroneous statements, therefore will you kindly publish our side of the question...
...Detroit, Mich...
...your fourth article you speak of the opportunities at Cranbrook near Detroit to watch a celebrated sculptor work. Last year the students had an opportunity to watch Mr. Lewis Rubenstein, a young artist who is a recent graduate of Harvard, paint a fresco on the wall of a corridor in the Fogg Museum in the old Italian technique, and it is hoped that it will be possible to give students more such opportunities in the future than they have had in the past...
Back in the U. S. she met paunchy Diego Rivera, begged his permission to grind colors, become his assistant. She worked with the Mexican muralist on his Detroit Art Institute fresco before helping him with the fresco fiasco of Rockefeller Center (TIME, May 22, 1933 et ante). It was Lucienne Bloch, as Rivera's official photographer, who took the only pictures of the completed mural before it was ordered destroyed. A few friends call her Lucienne; a few call her Luce. She hates Lucy, prefers the simple, abrupt "Bloch...
...celebrated scluptor Card Milles is at present a member of the faculty at the Cranbrook Foundation near Detroit. He is provided with a studio, and the students are urged to watch him and, if they desire, to work with him. He is said to have aroused considerable interest, and has inspired a group of men to do their own work. This is the sort of plan that Harvard could and should adopt for the undergraduate who is interested in creative art, for at present the Fine Arts department offers only one course, Fine arts 1a, which is of any practical...