Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Society found their seats quite nimbly in the dark, came through like little majors with applause. Bursting with bright ideas, Who's Who usually fumbled them in either the writing or the acting. Possibly Producer Maxwell would have considered it not quite suitable for the show to seem too professional...
...vivid twister in yellow, black and purple it was a dead ringer for a simple Matisse. This picture, incidentally, was an exception to the general rule that young children paint in the horizontal plane, older children in the vertical. The paintings which as a group undoubtedly stole the show were almost all horizontal-193 "finger paintings" by children from three to ten years...
...culturally self-sufficient are the French that important exhibitions of foreign art are rare in Paris. Rare in particular are shows of English art, toward which Parisians have a traditional, polite contempt. But by an interesting coincidence, the proposed visit of the King & Queen of England to Paris this June is being preceded by two unusually large and official shows of English painting. Last month Parisians fought a preliminary bout with their insularity at an exhibition of Caricatures et Mœurs Anglaises, 1750-1850 at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs. And last week...
...left Europe to become an assistant director on Christie comedies. In Hollywood he drew cartoons (as decorations for subtitles), became so proficient with his wiry, single-line caricatures that Dole Pineapple Co. pays him well for the right to use them. In directing he uses his pencil sketches to show the actors what he wants...
...named Earl C. Liston. It costs $5,000, about $1,000 more than an ordinary chamber, but it is worth it. With its hydrocyanic gas, it can kill two humans at a time, quickly, efficiently, without any mess. Says Earl Liston, with a craftsman's pride: "Our calculations show that this new chamber should snuff out the life in about 15 seconds...