Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...years ago, mostly influenced by Matthew Brady's Civil War photographs and by the movies of Von Stroheim and Vertov. This week Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art published American Photographs, a book of 87 pictures by Evans, and honored him with its first one-man show of photography...
Died. Charles Cruft, 86, "greatest of dog showmen," organizer of Great Britain's famed Cruft's Dog Shows; of heart disease; in London. In 1891 Queen Victoria gave Cruft's the cachet which has made it Europe's greatest dog show by entering her collie and three Pomeranians. At its Golden Jubilee Show two years ago, 10,650 dogs were entered...
...some directions business continued its recovery march. Best example was the greatly depressed automotive industry. With the Automobile Show only a month away, automobile production for the first time this year passed the 1937 level-25,554 units last week, compared to 23,222 year ago. Power output stood at a new high since November, only 2.9% under a year ago. Lumber output rose contra-seasonally and commodity prices, whose break in March 1937 first heralded Depression II, continued a rise that has been steady since early August...
...Fitch Gilbertt† announced that she has offered a stake of $2,000 for three-gaited horses at the forthcoming National Horse Show to be held in Manhattan in November. Stipulation: the horses cannot have set tails, a fashion which requires cutting the flexor muscles of a horse's tail, holding it in an iron "bustle" (except while in the ring or on the bridle path). Because her donation is $1,000 larger than any other Horse Show prize, Mrs. Gilbert hoped to lure horse-showers away from a cruel fashion...
...SHOW-Charles Cooke-Harper...