Word: guilds
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Norwalk, Conn., the annual exhibition is put on by the Silvermine Guild of Artists, a 16-year-old organization whose 310 members include Columnist Westbrook Pegler as well as John Steuart Curry, Novelist Ursula Parrott as well as Artist John Vassos. Most important exhibition this year at the Silvermine Gallery were 21 murals of a social statement show, which is now on tour, most of them explosive, crowded canvases of somewhat labored satire, like James Daugherty's It's Fun to Be Neutral, or solemn, like Howard Hildebrandt's Construction of the Merritt Parkway. Happier and more...
...great Glenn O. Coleman, most famed Long Beach native, was exhibited by the Long Beach Dads' Club, which hoped to raise enough money by public subscription to buy a Coleman for the public library. At the other end of the Island at socialite East Hampton, in the handsome Guild Hall and the landscaped gardens around it, young, prolific Wheeler Williams exhibited 85 pieces of sculpture, smooth executions of conventional subjects that ranged from a pipe-playing Pan to a bust of Countess Haugwitz-Reventlow...
...month after signing its first contract with a national press association (United Press) and its first contract with a Hearst paper in New York City (Mirror), the Newspaper Guild last week signed a one-year contract with TIME Inc., covering 350 employes of TIME, LIFE, FORTUNE, ARCHITECTURAL FORUM and the MARCHES OF TIME (radio and cinema). Some provisions: five-day, 40-hour week, with equal time off for overtime; severance pay of one and one-half week's peak salary for each six months of service up to a maximum of $5,000. Minimum wages: $20 a week...
...invited a limited number of sponsors to advertise. Only products personally approved by Engineer Hogan himself are permitted the use of his air waves, and their announcements are held to a strict standard of dignity and terseness. Typical sponsors have included Random House, the Oxford University Press, the Theatre Guild. Martinson's Coffee, the American Tobacco Co. One of them, the Book-of-the-Month Club, apologizes for taking up the listeners' valuable time. Despite these restraints, WQXR has turned into a sound moneymaker, has already grossed some...
...listen, have long bewailed opera's dramatic knocks and squeaks. Now and then zealous directors, and intrepid groups of operatic artists, have decided to do something about them. Most prominent of these groups in recent seasons have been England's Glyndebourne Opera, and the Salzburg Opera Guild...