Word: guested
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Modern art has too long remained a "not un-feared, half-welcome guest" among art teachers, a testimony rather to our caution than to our sense of responsibility to the world in which we live. Contemporary art is likely, among teachers, to be regarded as a trouble some continuation of nineteenth century art, rather than a phenomenon which requires not only special knowledge but a rather unusual critical equipment for its comprehension or its appraisal. Few college graduates can say that they have given much time or much thought, in their fine arts courses, to Surrealism, the murals of Orozco...
Colonel F. C. Harrington, administrator of the W.P.A., has definitely accepted a place as a guest at Table 3, Social Security and Relief. Also coming are Mrs. Elinore Herrick, regional director of the N.L.R.B.; Chester Davis, a member of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System; Dr. B. M. Stewart, member of the Regional Social Security Board; and Abraham Epstoin, Executive Secretary of the American Association for Social Security...
...between the notes: Tommy Reynolds, playing at the Parker House next Wednesday, showed up as having quite a good band in his battle of music with Red Norvo a short time ago... Casa Loma's new album for Decca is supposed to be excellent, with Louis setting in as guest trumpet player on "Rockin" Chair"... Court decisions get more complicated with one judge in New Orleans recently handing down a decision to the effect that "the aforesaid plaintiff does have a solid band in the true New Orleans style, and should therefore he paid his wages...
Governor Leverett Saltonstall '14 will be the guest of honor at the Adams House dinner tonight. He will speak informally in the dining ball during dinner...
NEWSPAPERMAN STUFF: Edwin A. Lahey, the Chicago scribe now at Harvard (on one of the Nieman Fellowships) was asked by a Boston Gazette to do a guest drama criticism on the Harvard Hasty Pudding show, in which the college boys cavort as chorus girls. . . . Mr. Lahey didn't think much of the show and said so in his review, but the paper didn't print it. . . . Presumably because the event is always a big social moment in Boston and the home towners might be offended. . . . His wind-up bears repeating, however: "These shows were originally presented for the entertainment...