Word: exhibitors
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Among the member artists is Howard Turner '41, organizer of the Harvard undergraduate exhibition recently held in the Germanic Museum. Turner's line drawings are notable for their simplicity and sharpness, and their effective use of contrast, while his watercolors are no less excellent. Samuel M. Greene, another exhibitor, was a former Harvard student and instructor. The other members are King Coffin, Richard deMenocal, Laurence Kupferman, Arthur Louges, and Elizabeth Titcomb. Current guest artists' are John Gregory, Diane Nemerov, and Alphonso Ossorio...
...spell of foul weather to pay top prices for a view of Miss Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story. When, after its first four days, the film had set a new record for the period with 110,168 paid admissions in the nation's No. 1 movie house, Exhibitor Brandt's amnesty seemed wise...
...name, since none has been completed and only a few planned. Instead they sell their studio's reputation. From the poke sticks a real pig's ear or two, a few guaranteed bristles: "three Gables, four Rooneys, two Mervyn LeRoy specials," etc. To get these, an exhibitor must buy a full schedule of unknowns, many of which will prove to be not pigs but turkeys. This is the system known as block booking and blind selling...
Question in many an independent exhibitor's mind was why Arnold had proved so lenient, failed to insist on his threatened divorce. Official explanation: the divorce threat was merely a means to a lesser end-the end of block booking. The Big Five, who have ducked an expensive legal battle and still have their theatres, are not complaining. But their costs will rise for three reasons: 1) salesmen must make the rounds once every few weeks instead of annually; 2) there must be more good pictures, fewer "turkeys," or sales will flop; 3) the new arbitration setup will cost...
...Luckiest exhibitor was no Virginian, but 21-year-old Alan Brown of Scarsdale, N.Y. Artist Brown, who wins his bread by designing wallpaper, had never even had a one-man show. An unknown painter rarely wins top prize at a major exhibition. Last week slender, blond, excited Alan Brown did. His Still Life, a swirling, subtly colored miscellany of newspaper, bottle, sticks of wood, pitcher, sprig of sumac, autumn grasses and a bird's nest, shared top honors with the Crucifixion, of thin, intellectual Manhattanite Fred Nagler. Both got John Barton Payne medals, and the Payne Fund bought their...