Word: exhibitions
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Widener Library Treasure Room has on exhibit a number of interesting historical objects, including a water-color drawing of Harvard College, done in 1794 by Jonathan Fisher, and showing Holden Chapel, and Hollis, Harvard, and Massachusetts Halls. A feature of this drawing is that the window panes, instead of being painted in black, are pricked with a pin, so that the back ground shows through and gives the impression of depth...
...plot, something about a girl from Manhattan slums who became famous in the Folies Bergere. In his most recent Scandals, George White introduced the now virtually incessant Black Bottom. In Manhattan Mary, he supplies a prospective successor-the Five Step. Mr. White himself momentarily joins the cast to exhibit this gyration, recalling days when he was an humble hoofer** for his now greatest rival, Florenz Ziegfeld. This innovation is second only, in importance, to the appearance in the pit of Mr. Wynn leading the orchestra, in which process his back begins to itch-something that well trained conductors' backs...
...evening except during the mid-semester hysteria is a scene of quite repose. When the lights momentarily go down as signal for closing they conceal possibly a score of souls in utter darkness. In the cubicles of the stacks there are others, but the General and Lower Reading rooms exhibit the hurly burly of a deserted village. Only the Farnsworth Room may be said to be adequately occupied...
...every trail the researchers are in full cry. Who knows in how many bureaus you may be tabulated and cross-indexed, if only to point a social moral or illustrate an economic trend? Nobody so humble or so proud but some official Boswell has captured him for an exhibit. The inquisitors get you from ambush anyhow, but if you expose yourself directly to the questionnaire volley by applying for something you are riddled, as at Harvard. You are filed, indexed, blue printed, graphed, annotated and footnoted; cultures and blood tests, so to speak, of your life from babyhood...
...Angeles critics, reviewing a local art show, cast disdainful glances at an exhibit by Mr. Smith's wife, later tapped out on their typewriters with long, nervous fingers the snippy opinion that it was "distinctly of the old school." On reading this, Mr. Smith saw red, turned radical with a vengeance. He daubed upon a canvas the weirdest monstrosity conceivable to his infuriated imagination. It showed a crazily proportioned South Sea Island female, mouth crammed to oozing with banana, holding aloft a half-devoured piece of the fruit. In the background gaped a skull. Having splotched every color...