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...Gilbert and Sullivan Players' production of Yeoman of the Guard will move to New York City for Jan. 29 and 30 as guests of Barnard College, Joseph H. Gardner '60, producer of the show, announced yesterday...
Heritage: Cash & Causes. The Cowles approach to foreign affairs is part of the legacy of Gardner Cowles Sr., onetime school superintendent with a talent for real estate, who founded the family empire in 1903 by paying $300,000 for the faltering Des Moines Register & Leader. After World War I, when the Midwest wanted no truck with foreign alliances, the elder Cowles backed the League of Nations, argued that Iowa's crop surpluses meant that the state would inevitably be entangled with nations abroad. John and Gardner ("Mike") Cowles expanded to new monopoly in Minneapolis during the early...
Board Chairman Charles Silver advised at first that members forget about feuding with the Telegram, pointed out that there was much truth in Allen's series. But Board Member Francis Adams, former New York City police commissioner, was fighting mad, and smooth-talking Baptist Pastor Gardner Taylor, the board's only Negro member, smelled a race issue in Allen's statement that a 15-year-old John Marshall girl often played truant, spent her days as a Harlem prostitute. The board voted to investigate the affair, including, as Adams said pointedly, "the manner in which Allen...
Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum will inherit the show Jan. 29. In the exhibition catalogue, the Metropolitan's Albert Ten Eyck Gardner advances a theory on the evolution of Homer's style that might have startled Henry James. Realist though Homer is. says Gardner, he probably got his great inspiration from the same source that sparked the School of Paris: Japanese prints. Homer lived in Paris in 1867, must have been aware of the fashion for things Japanese, which had already led Manet to simplify, sharpen and contract his pictured scenes. Homer inwardly resolved to do the same...
...Gardner finds Searchlight (see color) "particularly Japanese in its refined monochrome patterns." After the Hurricane also has one Japanese quality-its rendition of energy through design. The stunned stillness, the animal defeat in Homer's watercolor might seem diametrically opposed to Ogata Korin's lively imaginings (see above); yet the two men would have understood each other. Both spoke in terms of powerfully simple compositions...