Word: panels
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...panel including four Harvard professors will sit as a tribunal Thursday evening in a coronor's inquest to determine the murderer of democracy, alleged to be dead although unaware of it. The satire is the Ford Hall Forum's "annual impertinence" given at the banquet which closes its season. The chief guests will be President Conant and Senator George W. Norris of Nebraska, whom the Forum terms "by practically unanimous consent, the noblest character in the public life of America...
...German primitive room of Munich's famed Old Pinakothek Museum, Grant Wood on one of his few trips to Europe saw a grimy, meticulous little man painstakingly copying a 15th-Century panel with layer upon layer of tempera glaze. Wood realized that that was the way he should paint the U. S. scene. Back to Cedar Rapids he went, shaved off his pink whiskers, settled down to being the Breughel of the Com Belt among the dentists, butchers, farmers and shopkeepers with whom he was brought...
...fact the only famed Grant Wood picture that was not to be seen there was the Daughters of the Revolution, an oblong panel of three grim-faced spectacled spinsters standing in front of a framed engraving of Leutze's Washington Crossing the Delaware. Since last January, it has been the property of Emanuel Goldenberg of Bucharest. Rumania, better known to the U. S.'public as Cinemactor Edward G. Robinson (The Whole Town's Talking). Patient Actor Robinson, who walked into the Ferargil Galleries and paid cash for it, was unable to enjoy his picture until last month...
...From the panel of 12 selected last night at the Debating Council tryouts, the final negative and affirmative teams, composed of three men each will be chosen for the triangular debate with Yale and Princeton, Friday evening, at an organization meeting to be held in the Council office tonight at 8 o'clock...
...conventional stagecraft is chiefly the art of illusion, the technique by which an accomplished monologist makes real a panel of wholly imaginative characters is sheer sorcery. At performing the hardest of the theatre's tricks, Monologist Cornelia Otis Skinner is a topnotch sorceress...