Word: lent
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found he could not go east until August. This is the first year that the U. S. Polo Association has owned a decent stable. In past years some of the ponies were lent to the Association after the team was picked, but this year the Association needed its own ponies because it is not going to pick the international team until the night before the first match...
Other important paintings are an early Turner, "Seapiece," lent by the Malden Public Library; the "Grand Landscape" of Gainsborough; John Crome's "The Mill," the only representative of this artist on display: a small canvas by John Sell Cotman, "Chateau in Normandy": and some water colors by John Ruskin, Thomas Girtin and William Blake. It is interesting to note that group of one Turner and two Raeburns are hung in the identical place in which they were when the museum opened...
...while spending it on Broadway met a cinema producer who gave him a $20 job in his cutting room. He became cutting room editor, then wrote some scenarios, got into directing. When he found that Warner Bros, who paid him $400 a week, were getting $1,000 when they lent him to other companies, he quit work and went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece of plaster blown from a dynamited church. He is fat, witty, a brilliant organizer...
Authorities of Fogg Art Museum announced yesterday that the major exhibition for this year will start on Monday and will last for two weeks. The showing this year, held in honor of Professor C. B. Tinker, of Yale, will feature eighteenth and early nineteenth century English paintings, lent for the occasion by private collectors, university museums, and well known dealers from all parts of the country...
...William Emerson and I.D. Levy are among the private collectors who have lent art treasures to the exhibit. Prominent dealers who have aided with donations include the Robert C. Vose Galleries, the Howard Young Galleries. Knoedler and Company, and Sir Joseph Devine. The public as well as all members of the University are invited to visit this major exhibition, which will be one of the most complete of its kind in the United States