Word: director
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When radio feels that it has something important to say, it usually tries to say it in hour-long "documentaries." Usually, nobody listens. Pondering this depressing fact, Mutual's Elsie Dick, director of educational programs, determined to "close the gap between what the public likes and what the public needs...
...exhibit worth it? To make sure that it would be, Pepsi had screened the 156 final canvases through six juries of artists and museum men (Exhibit Director Roland McKinney served on all six). The resulting show, which ran the gamut from naturalism to sheer abstraction, contained very few duds. It proved again the energy, variety and competence of a number of U.S. painters, known and unknown, doing their work in all parts of the country. Among the standouts...
Another such painting, which might strike laymen as being neither better nor worse than the rest, won this year's top prize. Insisted Director McKinney: "The finest picture in the whole show." It was a sodden, ragged and barren landscape under a strawberry-tinted sky, done by a soft-spoken 32-year-old Virginian named Mitchell Jamieson. To Painter Jamieson, in Paris last week on a Guggenheim Fellowship to study European masters, the news hit the spot. "I planned on going to an art exhibition with my wife this afternoon," he said when he was asked about...
This week the U.S. theater's most successful director of Shakespeare's works (sample feat: she made a hit of the Maurice Evans Hamlet in the uncut version, running 4½ hours) is launching her most ambitious Shakespearean venture. She is sending out a motorized touring company to play Shakespeare on a scale-and with financial assurance-unprecedented by any other troupe of Broadway caliber...
...director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo shook his head violently over the new ballet. Said he: "You might as well put a mustache on a Rubens." He tried to get Rodeo-and the American woman who composed it-thrown out of the company...