Word: exhibiting
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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There was some uncertainty as to whether the Charter Jubilee Art Show which got under way in Chicago last week was the largest such exhibit ever housed in one room, but everyone agreed that it was the longest. It was held on the second-floor gallery of Chicago's Navy Pier, where that city's proletariat is accustomed to flock on Sundays for recreation. Distance from the gallery's west entrance to the far end is 1,300 ft., and since the paintings hung on both walls a half-mile march was necessary to see them...
...monarch of the elephant picket line. But three years ago General Director William M. Mann of the National Zoological Park persuaded the Ringlings to retire Babe to his pachyderm house. Besides plain old age, she was afflicted with an ingrown toenail, bad teeth. Even so she became the prize exhibit of the Washington Zoo. Younger, stronger elephants soon discovered she had brought her ruling manner with her. Her stanchest admirers were the President's grandchildren, Sistie and Buzzie Dall...
...that most French editors passed it over in polite silence. Privately the Paris consensus seemed to be last week: "It contains none of the American products famous in France, no motorcars, no silk stockings, no reasonably priced ready-made dresses, no cheap-but-good shoes." Most appreciated exhibit seemed to be the Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s so-called "Steerometer and Reactometer," a gadget on which visitors could test their fitness to drive a car. Unexplained last week was a heavily draped pool table. A bust of John D. Rockefeller Sr. stared at a bust of Mahatma Gandhi...
More than two hundred photographs by Miss Esther Born, illustrating contemporary Mexican architecture, will be on exhibit in Hunt Hall Daily until June 27 from 9 o'clock to 5. These views made for the Architectural Record, include examples of nearly every important type of secular building, from the simplest workers' house and private dwellings to large office buildings, hospitals, markets, warehouses, schools, factories, airports, and monuments...
...Notable exhibit; in the Italian pavilion, many photographs of barbarously cruel Ethiopian practices before the Italian Conquest...