Word: director
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...great traditions were literary and, in the nineties, art played a minor role. Nevertheless the formation of collections of original works of art began almost with the opening of the building. Charles Eliot Norton, made Professor of Fine Arts in 1875, and Professor Charles Herbert Moore, the first director, began to collect drawings and watercolors of the English School. Greek vases were lend by Edward P. Warren and in 1897 and 1898, the Gray and Rrandall print collections, on loan from Harvard in the Boston Museum of Fine Arts, were transferred to the Fogg Museum. Later gifts and purchases have...
...lower floor and the gallery were remodeled to increase exhibition space and provide better lighting and Edward W. Forbes '95 was made Director of the museum. He found it with only the beginnings of collections of anything except prints and with space which was even then inadequate. Three years later Paul J. Saches '01 was made Associate Director and it is to the scholarship and enthusiasm of these two men that the present state of the museum is chiefly due. Each has contributed generously from his own collections to the enrichment of the museum and their examples and earnestness have...
Stark Love depicts customs and manners of sequestered mountain folk, North Carolina. Director and Author Karl Brown got them to act their primitive lives before his camera. The natives use no makeup, register no artful emotions. Men sleep, hunt, fish, sleep. Women hoe, bear children, scrub dishes, chop wood, cook, clean, bear children. The men live longer. The mere projection of such crude civilization, the knowledge that it still persists among lineal descendants of American settlers is enough to make the film's substance fascinating...
...addition, however, the director included a pretty romance. The only person in the hills who can read is Rob Warwick (Forrest James). He alone knows that in the outer world beyond the mountains, women are protected and respected, that a woman was once invited by a man to tread upon his cloak in order to avoid soiling her shoes. Such regard he would have for Barbara Allen (Helen Munday) of the North Carolina Hills. But his father, having worked his mother to death, decides to take that girl to be "his new woman," after concluding a bargain with her father...
...Director Brown has used only four actors. The rest of the characters are natives who were unconscious of the fact that the various scenes in which they played were to be strung together to make a motion picture story. Before the film, an old actor, once native to the Great Smokies of North Caroline, assures the audience that Director Brown's life would not be safe were he to return to the people whose story he filched...