Word: halls
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...horror-mangled style in a huge mural, The Bombing of Guernica, for the Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation of surrealist and abstract painting. In the U.S. an abstract painting, The Yellow Cloth by Cubist Georges Braque, won First Prize at the Carnegie International Exhibition (TIME...
...Maria Ouspenskaya in Conquest, Luise Rainer in The Good Earth, Joseph Schildkraut in The Life of Emile Zola, Mathias Wieman in The Eternal Mask, Dame May Whitty in Night Must Fall. Unmentioned was Hollywood's 1937 pride, Paul Muni (Zola), recently accorded a niche in Hollywood's Hall of Fame in the Carthay Circle Theatre...
...visiting team's dressing room in Philadelphia's old Shibe Park was dressed up to look like a banquet hall one day last week. Gay flags hung from the walls, a long table sported baskets of flowers and an icy cake decorated with sugar baseball bats & balls, and about 100 baseball men milled noisily about sipping Scotch & soda. Presently they began to munch chicken patties, crab cutlets, cakes, nuts and mints. Suddenly a tall, gaunt old fellow with bushy white eyebrows and sunken eyes strode in briskly. The guests promptly gave him a spontaneous yell of greeting...
That his job is not lightly to be dispensed with was shown nine years ago. Following a precedent set by tradition-busting Muscovites,* Manhattan musicians formed a "Conductorless Orchestra" and gave a series of Carnegie Hall concerts. They managed to keep time with each other, played as well as some orchestras do under some conductors. But the electric fusion of tone that would have been brought forth by a Toscanini, a Stokowski or a Furtwangler was completely lacking. Financially the venture was a dismal flop...
...vigil of the Feast of the Nativity last week, 29 Roman Catholic cardinals gathered in the Vatican's Consistory Hall to tender greetings to His Holiness Pope Pius XI, to hear his reply which would go to the world as a Christmas message next day. Pius XI spoke only of one sorrow-the state of the Church in Germany-in an emotion-choked voice which was not broadcast because the 80-year-old Pontiff's words no longer sound clear over the radio. Said the Pope...