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With Kitty Foyle, Author Christopher Morley hit a novelist's jackpot: a bestseller and a Class A movie. It was that familiar, marketable love story of the 30s about a poor working girl (25% Irish) and a Philadelphia scion (seventh-generation Main Line). The well-paced narrative (girl meets boy, girl gets boy, boy does not marry girl) was not helped by the predictability of the incidents nor the faded charm of slick writing about young love. On TV, Kitty was just an old-fashioned tearjerker with not enough strength left to jerk the tears...
...Amazed." To field their best, West Coast museum directors from Seattle, Portland and Los Angeles, headed by San Francisco Museum Director Dr. Grace L. McCann Morley (TIME, Feb. 28), selected the outstanding talents in their own areas, weeded down their entries to 98 works from 88 West Coast painters, printmakers and sculptors...
...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...
Rooms with a View. To give San Franciscans further proof of the museum's progress. Director Morley had on display last week the pick of its 4,000 works, most of them donated by enthusiastic San Francisco collectors. Included in the current anniversary show are the outstanding works from the museum's San Francisco Bay area annuals, which have given a boost to such artists as Dong Kingman and the late Matthew Barnes, a survey of Latin American art, important works by Braque, Klee, Matisse and Franz Marc. For the gala opening, the museum unveiled nine handsome...
...success of the San Francisco Museum has made Grace Morley an important figure in the museum world. Currently she is the president of the Association of Art Museum Directors. But Director Morley's overriding concern is to improve the lot of the artists themselves. The museum runs a rental service of contemporary works, promotes modern art with a TV show reaching 50,000 bay area viewers each week. But in trying to make San Franciscans bigger art buyers, Director Morley has run into one unmovable obstacle. "San Franciscans are spoiled by the view." she explains. "If they buy less...