Word: finds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Morris Kantor, whose horsy, Old Testament head is one of the longest on the faculty of Manhattan's Art Students' League, has been a respected U. S. painter for about ten years. Few people were prepared, however, to find his roomful of canvases at the Rehn Galleries the most satisfying in the city, not excluding the big Whitney Museum annual of contemporary U. S. painting...
This week Daytonians were to vote for the seventh time on a proposed special 2-mill levy. Even should Dayton's chastened citizens vote for this tax, however, they will still have to do some deep thinking to find a way to reopen their schools before Christmas, for the new funds will not be available until next year...
...action which does not occur on horseback occurs in well-appointed cafés. Also, as in Rhythm of the Saddle, which has an unbelievably elaborate racketeer and gambler plot, heroes are more likely to be rodeo performers than practicing cowboys. Western devotees, growing effete, do not find these anomalies objectionable...
...inherent in Strauss's music may be partly due to the ironic fact that world events have made imperial Vienna something more than the stock romantic setting it was when a similar operetta had its Manhattan stage opening four years ago. Certainly, admirers of the new Vienna will find much to deplore in the picture's affectionate portrait of an era when the principal effect of Revolution was that it inspired a young musician to write a march; and when the most important effect of barricades in the Vienna streets was to cause the same young composer (Fernand...
...tweeds. . . . His new little 'café au lait' number is becoming, and brings out the fine, lovely quality of his camellia-like complexion. . . . I'm sending 'Eve's Apple' to certain people, so, Stewie, when you get home tonight, you'll find it waiting...