Word: publicizer
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...tomblike gallery with popular-priced concerts for London's war-worried workers. With the help of a redheaded British adman named Ronald Jones, they got permission from His Majesty's Office of Works to use the sacred space, announced a schedule of first-rate talent, invited the public to seven lunch-and-teatime concerts a week...
...gallery's sweating guards. "They cost ?250 each.") By the time the first week's concerts were over, Pianist Hess had received nearly a hundred letters from famous musicians promising voluntary support, or services for a small fee, to help feed London's starved music public...
...come & go, but the cannonading over the question whether there is or is not a U. S. school in art goes on forever. Meanwhile, art appreciation in the U. S. has come of age with a bang. In 1939 a barrage of art books has been aimed at the public taste. Biggest is Thomas Craven's A Treasury of Art Masterpieces,* a portable gallery of 144 color reproductions ranging from Giotto to Grant Wood. Most aggressive is Peyton Boswell Jr.'s Modern American Painting,† which is as nationalistic as the Spirit...
...aluminum winged archer shooting an arrow downward ("burying a shaft"). Popularly, the statue is known as the god of love, Eros. Tradition has it that, while Eros stands in Piccadilly, no Londoner can be arrested for kissing a girl. Last week, if any Londoner felt like kissing in public, he had to watch his step; for Eros was removed-for the duration of World...
Organizer Story has formed a committee of Big Names, from Hugh Walpole to A. P. Herbert, has turned her basement into a rallying place for artists, patrons, critics, buyers, the art public. Air raids need not overly annoy visitors, for the British Art Centre has full club facilities, including a bar and easy chairs...