Word: displays
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...handsome neo-Georgian Museum of Art (its façade draped with red, white and blue bunting) a WPA brass band trumpeted God Bless America, while museum attendance jumped from 75 to 400 daily. Detroit's sedate Institute of Arts put on a price-marked display of Grand Rapids furniture. In Lewisburg, Pa. pastors of all denominations and an esthete named Prof. B. Gummo sermonized and lectured on "What is Art?" In Chicago a streamlined sound truck of abstract design toured the Loop enthusiastically wailing plugs for Art Week. On nearby sidewalks pretty models paraded with paintings stuck...
Meticulous little Director William Wyler has packed his picture with atmosphere, an elusive quality for movies. He keeps his audience strained with a most effective dramatic time bomb - the constant feeling that something very bad is about to occur. Bette Davis helps with a display of psychopathic evil as repulsive as her Mildred in that other Somerset Maugham cinema success, Of Human Bondage. Herbert Marshall, more limber than usual, behaves appropriately for a true-blue British colonial. James Stephenson, hitherto confined to furnishing British background, gives the part of the lawyer a distinguished, neatly devised piece of acting...
...collection housed in the museum wing of the mansion is one of the most notable of the present day bearing on the art of early Christendom and the By zantine Empire through medieval times. Sculpture, textiles, jewelry, mosaics, and art of the Byzantine and Allied periods, are on display there...
Harold Kaese of the Boston Transcript: "Harvard lived up to the favorite's role this afternoon and gave a convincing display of power football. Yale went down fighting, but it was Harvard...
Paeans were showered upon Harvard this afternoon by Eastern Sports scribes as a result of its impressive gridiron display against Yale. Some of the comments were as follows...