Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Music by Ruby Newman, introductions by Heywood Broun '10, "schnozzle" by Durante, songs by Ethel Merman, and satire at the expense of Harvard will be part of the bill of fare at the first annual Gridiron Show and Ball of the Boston Newspaper Guild at the Hotel Statler, Thursday evening, January...
...editorial of January 12th, the "Crimson" called the Undergraduate Faculty "a fundamental cure to a few of the 'one-third, of the nation who are ill-fed, ill-clothed and ill-housed." To merit this praise, how can the Undergraduate Faculty after half a year of existence show that preconditioning is the first step towards a fundamental cure? This question would be difficult to answer five years from now and impossible today. The long-range results of education cannot be measured in statistical units...
...Paris was witty, shocking Jean Cocteau's The Terrible Parents, whose plot involves sons cuckolding their fathers and other incest. When Cocteau offered free tickets to school children, the Paris Municipal Council ordered the theatre's lease canceled, thus closing the show. Cocteau, who calls himself "John the Bird-catcher," at once slapped a five-million-franc damage suit on the city of Paris, alleging his play has "great artistic merit" and insisting that it was left "to the discretion of the teachers to choose the pupils most worthy to profit by the offer of free tickets...
...Finest show of "documentary" photographs in many a season was the Walker Evans show last autumn at Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art. Last week in Chicago appeared a complement to it. Shown at the Katharine Kuh galleries were 100 new prints by the able California photographer, Edward Weston...
...Uptown at the Rehn Galleries was a show of large, firmly painted water colors by Charles Burchfield, in which that famous first of the "U. S. Scene" artists proved his widening scope. When Burchfield began to paint in upstate New York, he loved and satirized the blackening monuments of "General Grant Gothic" architecture in U. S. houses and streets. In his later work, satire is supplanted by more profound emotion. Most dramatic if not the finest example: December Twilight: a cold, desolate village against a furnace slit of sunset...