Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Buffalo Society of Artists, Buffalo, N. Y., enjoyed itself so much as it did last week. In a basement room of the revered Albright Art Gallery were exhibited 40 works of peculiar art contrived by Society members to parody surrealism in particular and loony modernism in general-a "Faker Show" which owed much to the high spirits of versatile, 57-year-old Alexander Oscar Levy, onetime Society president. Parodies of surrealism are imperiled by an inevitable resemblance to surrealism itself. Buffalo objects with a triumphant element of wit included...
...Columbia University, "of an extensive experiment to change human preferences for music, paintings, and photographs of young college girls, by a differential conditioning technique." His technique consisted of presenting neutral or distasteful items during a free lunch, items which were already preferred before or after the lunch. "The results, show the differential conditioning to be remarkably effective. Even one lunch was sufficient to produce considerable and reliable changes in the group tastes. ... It appears that the preferential value of one or another form of music or art is largely associative in nature...
Radio amateur hours make a gong-walloping hurrah about discovering unknown genius. But the records show that they very seldom turn up an artist who can get to first base. In the four years of its existence, the most famed of U. S. amateur hours, that of pudgy, beak-nosed Major Bowes, has not yet unearthed a singer of first-rate concert or opera calibre...
Although he feels "fit as can be," Producer Daniel Frohman, 86, wrote his own obituary, listing his achievements in 64 years of show business, sent the story to all Manhattan newspapers. Said he: "I might be run down by an auto, you know...
...stock and enter the medium-priced automotive field under the guidance of "a person of national importance." Last week it looked as though Jim Farley had been saved for the Cabinet, for Fierce-Arrow trustees and creditors sadly obtained from a Buffalo court an order for the company to show cause why it should not be declared insolvent...