Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...original Babar water colors in an exhibition arranged with the aid of Jean de Brunhoff's widow and his brother, Michel, the Paris editor of Vogue. Priced from $25 to $100, these bland, lively and unworldly little drawings, colored with surprising delicacy, made the most successful show of its kind Manhattanites have seen in many...
...first time in its nine-year history the Allied Arts show of Dallas, Tex. fortnight ago admitted to its annual competition a piece of sculpture by a Negro. Last week a jury, including San Antonio's wintering Artist Henry Lee McFee, awarded it first prize. The sculptor: Thurmond Townsend, 26, a $9.40-a-week bus boy in the Talk of the Town, an eating place on Dallas' Main Street. Sculptor Townsend never tried modeling until one day a few months ago, when the mud in his back yard suddenly looked malleable and inviting. He fooled around, did busts...
...symphony is a long composition in three or four separate movements written for a large orchestra. But not every orchestral composition in three or four movements is a symphony. Nearly any composer can string a few movements together like the acts in a vaudeville show. But a real symphonist must build his movements like the acts of a drama, make each one lead to the next, bring down his final curtain on an impressive climax. The great symphonists of any generation can be counted on the fingers of one hand...
Married. David Whitmire Hearst, 22. youngest (with his twin Randolph) son of Publisher William Randolph Hearst; to Hope Chandler, 17, former Manhattan show girl, who last year was chosen the "prettiest girl in Paradise" (Manhattan night club); in Manhattan...
...looked as though the unknown backers, if any, would have to invest their money elsewhere. For the ICC examiner not only recommended that Gilbert Gable's certificate of convenience & necessity be withdrawn but also that one be refused to the Crescent City group. Said he: "Recent army reports show that the prospect of future growing importance of the ports of Port Orford and Crescent City definitely may be discarded as a factor of consequence in this proceeding...