Word: gracing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Post." Today, both Dale and Roy are members of the Protestant Episcopal Church, which they joined when they moved to a ranch outside Hollywood. They say grace at meals, and at night they pray around a family altar (made of one of Dale's old dressing tables). Sometimes Dale squeezes in her morning prayers while driving to work in her Dodge. "Then I read my Bible while I'm having my hair done...
...Virtues of Poverty. When Grace Morley first opened the museum on the fourth floor of San Francisco's War Memorial Building in 1935, she had one assistant, 98 prints and a handful of oils. She decided to make a virtue of the museum's poverty. Treating the museum primarily as an exhibition center, she filled the empty walls with more than 100 shows a year, kept up the busy pace until museumgoers were deluged with modern art. When a wave of enthusiasm for Mexican painting started after Diego Rivera painted his murals for the San Francisco Stock Exchange...
...with a calendar chockablock with concerts, poetry readings, art classes and a movie series. Membership has jumped from 800 members in 1938 to more than 3,500 today. The museum's annual budget has increased from $50,000 to $118,000. Says an admiring rival San Francisco director: "Grace Morley has the most enthusiastic support from the community of any museum director I have ever heard of. On pauper's rations she has made the museum outstanding...
...success of the San Francisco Museum has made Grace Morley an important figure in the museum world. Currently she is the president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. But Director Morley's overriding concern is to improve the lot of the artists themselves. The museum runs a rental service of contemporary works, promotes modern art with a TV show reaching 50,000 bay area viewers each week. But in trying to make San Franciscans bigger art buyers, Director Morley has run into one unmovable obstacle. "San Franciscans are spoiled by the view." she explains. "If they buy less...
...Country Girl. A slickly made story (by Clifford Odets) about a Broadway has-been (Bing Crosby), his bitter wife (Grace Kelly) and cynical Director William Holden (TIME...