Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...formal announcement that the Harvard Society for Contemporary Art will cease to function as an exhibiting group after its current exhibition appearing in the Harvard Cooperative Building is over was tentatively confirmed last evening by Mrs. Paul Herzog, present executive of the organization. Unless what at the present time seems a hopeless financial situation is unexpectedly remedied, the present exhibit which is characterized as setting a "new high" in the association's history will close the history of this organization, which was founded by Harvard undergraduates three years...
...exhibit opened with a reception at which platters of sweetmeats and little cups of Turkish coffee were handed round by Miss Angela Mulinos, an Attic beauty who was "Miss Greece" at the 1930 Galveston International. Speeches were made by Professor Demetrios Tselos of Princeton, Vice Consul Konstantine Konstandas. The guest of honor (who was unfortunately unable to be there because of a pressing engagement to wrestle in Toronto) was lion-chested Christopher Theophilus, more widely known as Jim Londos, world's heavyweight wrestling champion. High above the clink of coffee cups sounded the praises of Greek artists, poets, professors...
...view either was the prize exhibit, a monumental bust of the Chompeen by Polygnotos Vagis entitled "Concentrated Power." Nobody had money enough to move it uptown from 12th Street...
Familiar to most big cities is the fly-by-night exhibit of gruesome or sleazy photographs which opens in a vacant store, boldly advertised as an "appeal to justice" or a "lesson in morality." Usually the pictures are unpublished newsphotos of current crime. The patron may be lured in by "free admission," then coaxed to pay 25^ to see an extra-ripe display behind a curtain; or he may be held up at the exit to contribute to a "fund for the impoverished victims." Into such a "crime prevention" exhibit on Los Angeles' South Main Street two months...
...trial last week Defendants Gotch et al pleaded, successfully, that the pictures were privileged as an exhibit "designed to deter criminal acts...