Word: morleys
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Francisco Museum of Art was celebrating its 20th anniversary last week, marking a milestone as the country's second oldest museum (after Manhattan's) devoted solely to modern art. It was also paying warm tribute to the museum's scholarly director, Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley, 54. A woman who prefers tailored suits, sensible shoes, and wears her hair straight back in a bun, Director Morley, despite her retiring ways, has proved herself a dynamo in action. Her efforts have helped turn San Francisco into one of the nation's most enthusiastic strongholds of modern...
...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...
...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...
...made in Hollywood. John Huston's Beat the Devil, written by Truman Capote and shot in Italy, was a magnificent leg-pull: a kind of dipsoid tirade of brilliant comic invention, played with a cross-eyed, morning-after charm by a fine cast (Humphrey Bogart, Jennifer Jones, Robert Morley, Peter Lorre). On the Waterfront, Elia Kazan's burly piece of camereering along the docksides of Hoboken, had excellent photography, though the drama sometimes got out of emotional focus. But the meaning of it all came clear in Marlon Brando, who turned in what was surely the most capacious...
Married. Fred Waring, 54, veteran sweet-and-low bandleader; and Virginia Morley, 39, pianist for Waring's Pennsylvanians; he for the third time, she for the second; in Indianapolis; the day after Waring was divorced by wife No. 2, Evalyn Nair Waring, in Las Vegas...