Word: museumed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ernest White, noted organist of the Church of St. Mary the Virgin in New York, will give a recital of the works of modern composers at the Germanic Museum this evening at 8:15 o'clock...
Another mummy which made news last week was that of Harwa, an agricultural official who was attached, some 2,800 years ago, to one of the God Amon's temples. Harwa was exhumed in Egypt some time ago and now belongs to Chicago's Field Museum of Natural History. Recently the General Electric X-Ray Corp. arranged to borrow him so that he could be fluoroscoped full length for the edification of visitors to the New York World's Fair. X-rays will penetrate the wrappings and dried flesh, pass on to create an image...
Honry Russell Hitchcock, Jr., an officer of the Museum of Modern Art in New York and a member of the art department of Wesleyan University, will speak on "American House Types and Their Origins" in the Junior Common Room of Eliot House tonight at 7:30 as part of the American Civilization plan's program...
...sculpture has no more indefatigable plugger than capable, stately Malvina Hoffman. When she did her famous bronzes of 101 racial types for Chicago's Field Museum, she performed a sculptural-scientific job of Leonardian scope, proved to countless U. S. citizens that sculpture could be scholarly. In the four years since then, 51-year-old Sculptor Hoffman has done less notable modeling, more writing. In her latest book* she offers students and laymen a drilled-eye view of a tough craft...
Louisville. Hazy and heaped-up, Louisville, Ky., says Author Leighton, is the museum piece among U. S. cities. There are the battered columns of Nicholas Biddle's once great United States Bank: "now the windows are bleared and there's a drunk asleep on the crumbling steps." In the great Gait House, financiers once fought over the Louisville & Nashville; in the lobby General Buckner, Confederate hero and Chicago real-estate speculator, smoked his corncob pipe and fought the reformers. At the Music Hall, 43-year-old William Goebel, ranked by Leighton as the greatest field general among...