Word: news
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Indirectly another even richer woman sculptor was important in last week's art news. Mrs. Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, resting from her own labors since her exhibition at the Knoedler Galleries eight months ago, opened the Third Biennial Exhibition of U. S. artists at the Whitney Museum of American...
...much the same fashion as a sweepstakes victor gets his good news, in Seattle, Wash. last week Eugene Gladstone O'Neill was awakened in his rented house over-looking Puget Sound to be told by his wife (Actress Carlotta Monterey) that he had just won $39,314. Professor Sophus Keith Wintrier of the University of Washington had telephoned her that the Associated Press had telephoned him that the Nobel Foundation had awarded Playwright O'Neill its 1936 literature prize and the newspaper boys were on their way out. Lounging in old pants and sweater at the side...
...Tannhauser, Elgar's King Olaf, Grieg's Olaf Tryggvason. Heated, enthusiastic, she swung next into a Schumann symphony, had to wipe her perspiring brow after the first movement. She had picked up enough energy in her European trip to satisfy everybody and to make Daily News Critic Eugene Stinson find the orchestra "well nigh unrecognizable, so firmly has Ebba Sundstrom increased her grasp over her players since last spring...
...only 92,000 spectators all season, not many more than the New York Yankees draw on one good day. The St. Louis Browns have been for sale ever since their owner, Philip De Catesby Ball, died three years ago, but not until last week was baseball rocked by the news that the sale of the Browns had finally been consummated. Buyer was a syndicate of St. Louis sportsmen headed by President Donald Lee Barnes of American Investment Co. of Illinois and Public Loan Corp. Formed with $500,000, the syndicate paid $325,000 for the club, plans to spend...
...Newsfront, was depicted the new San Francisco-Oakland Bay Bridge. Superimposed on this aerial view was what no camera can yet show: The architect's drawing of the island which is to be built for the 1939 San Francisco World's Fair. Other featured items of picture-news were Louisiana's "Moses" foundling; the spectacular death of Minnesota's Dr. Joseph Graham Mayo, who drove his automobile up a railroad track; awards for diction and genius, respectively, to Actress Ina Claire and Playwright Eugene O'Neill; and the exhumation in California for reburial in their...