Word: pennsylvania
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Edward Hopper for one of his familiar old houses, painted in the sharp yellow light of a Cape Cod afternoon. Second prize ($1,500) and a silver medal went to Painter-Critic Guy Pène du Bois for a solidly painted young girl, stiffly upright in a chair. Pennsylvania Academy Instructor Francis Speight took the third prize for a farm woman collecting her mail. Critics found little of outstanding importance in the show, but uniformly praised the general excellence of the work. None objected to the judges' choices, found worthy of special mention other paintings by Bernard Keyes...
...Boston Symphony, the entire Smetana Opera The Bartered Bride sung by the Metropolitan Opera in Manhattan, concerts by the Peabody Conservatory in Baltimore, the Musical Arts Chorus of Easton, Pa., the Lincoln Cathedral Choir of Lincoln, Neb., the Roth Quartet playing in Princeton, the University of Michigan Band. Pennsylvania alone arranged 50 special programs. Pittsburgh played orchestral works written by Pittsburghers. Los Angeles put on Charles Wakefield Cadman's Indian opera Shanewis. New Orleans had choruses sing in schools and playgrounds. In Indianapolis, over an NBC hookup, 275 pianists sat down at 150 pianos and played them...
...tragically. Leon Rothier, a veteran Mephistopheles, had most assurance and most art. Good-looking Donald Dickson made his Metropolitan debut as Valentine. Even nervousness could not rob him of the strong, clear baritone and fine dramatic sense that first made scouts notice him when he was a Pennsylvania steelworker...
...such degrees and modes of punishment may be discovered and suggested as may, instead of continuing habits of vice, become the means of restoring our fellow citizens to virtue and happiness." Once admitted to work in prisons, the Society flourished, changed its name in its 100th year to the Pennsylvania Prison Society. Today trained case workers instead of ministers do its alleviating; the Society's agents are the only persons allowed to enter any Pennsylvania prison at any time to interview any prisoner...
...Mellon "industrial fellowship" has worked extraordinarily well. Last year "donors" gave $816,315. This financed 69 fellowships. Since 1911 almost 4,000 U. S. companies including Aluminum Company of America, Pennsylvania Railroad, Simmons Company (beds), Koppers Gas & Coke Company, Ward Baking Com pany, Cluett, Peabody & Company, Inc. (shirts, collars), Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company, have paid the Mellon Institute $11,478,406 for research. Said Director Weidlein last week: "Most of the problems have been solved satisfactorily." Workers have produced 19 books, 143 bulletins, 744 research reports, 1,117 miscellaneous papers as a result of their work...