Word: patronism
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...advantage the University Theatre has over any other movie house in the Boston area is the inertia of rest. Even if the average patron gave a hoot for the quality of what he saw on the screen, the energy required to get into town to see some super-classic would be prohibitive. The man with the cinemaitch merely wanders to the University and takes what comes...
Philadelphia has never had a more generous music patron than Mary Louise Curtis Bok. Curtis Publishing Co. gave Mrs. Bok her money and Mrs. Bok's money gave Philadelphia the Curtis Institute of Music. She is still its Lady Bountiful, hires the best teachers available, gives free tuition to all students, monthly stipends to those who need them. Far beyond Philadelphia Mrs. Bok is known as the woman who paid for Stokowski's famed productions there of Wozzeck and Oedipus Rex in 1931, his H. P. the next year. In 1934 she wrote the checks for Fritz Reiner...
Oldest, ablest, most interesting of these abstractionists is Artist Albert Eugene Gallatin, Eugene to his friends, though art critics know him better as a patron than a producer of art. Always free from the necessity of earning a living. Eugene Gallatin was definitely one of the lads in the days of pearl-button reefers and horse-headed canes. A member of the swank Union Club for many years, he was founder, remains president of the moribund Motor-Car Touring Society, whose object was to bring a tone of dashing sportsmanship to the horseless carriage...
...more than the title of Mrs. Logan's book, it is an association and a movement of which she is the founder and mainspring. Born Josephine Hancock, daughter of Chicago's famed Col. John Lane Hancock, elderly Mrs. Logan is not only an active art patron, an avid clubwoman, but a poet. She has written two books of verse. Lights and Shadows and Heights and Depths, and many lyrics including a Negro monolog entitled Longing...
...they shouted. "The statue wins!" Artist Bufano, who chopped off his trigger ringer during the War, frequently sleeps in his clothes, and lives almost exclusively on nuts, is a sculptor of un questioned ability who has had a burning ambition to give San Francisco a heroic statue of her patron saint...