Word: rayed
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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What "General" Farley and the Roosevelts saw was unquestionably worth the trip to New York. Only occasionally is Producer Dowling on view, for that old-time song-&-dance man (Follies) modestly limits his appearance to a few skits. But his wife, little Ray Dooley, has all sorts of funny things to do. At one point she is hoisted to the top of a pyramid formed by half a dozen jibbering Arab tumblers. Teetering just under the proscenium arch, she is the picture of comic terror. Again, as an aged Merry Widow, she is tossed all over the stage...
Pink-haired, ingratiating Jack Whiting running a musical temperature with a little doll-faced girl named Ella Logan and a long-locked blues-singer named Martha Ray in a number called "If It's Love...
...showing Degas and Manet prints. Pittsburgh was sending its big Carnegie International exhibition to Baltimore. San Franciscans were peering thoughtfully at Sculptress Malvina Hoffman's Races of Man. Los Angeles was holding its second annual California Modernists Exhibition. In Northampton, Mass., Smith College girls were giggling before Man Ray's Surrealist photographs...
...Cutler started a minor revolt against what they called the "Museum [of Fine Arts ] School" which was then turning out replicas of John Singer Sargent. The revolt sagged. Today Boston's best artist concerned with the contemporary U. S. scene is Molly Luce, wife of Alan Burroughs. X-ray art researcher for Harvard's Fogg Museum...
Examinations like this one under the direction of Alan Burroughs, research worker, are given masterpieces before they are placed on exhibit. Put under the X-ray, brush strokes stand out clearly revealing the characteristics of the painter. For instance, the brush strokes on "St. Luke and the Virgin" have led Mr. Burroughs to believe that Dirk Bouts, and not Roger van der Weyden, was its painter...