Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...otherwise have found in the U. S. except in the Italian room at Pittsburgh's Carnegie International. Except for the unaccountable absence of paintings by Felice Carena. a graceful and accomplished Italian counterpart of America's John Carroll, it was a comprehensive though not a highly selective show. The 100 paintings included works by private painters as well as painters on whom the Corporate State has set the seal of official approval by commissioning them to do frescoes for public buildings and for the Italian Pavilion at the Paris International Exposition last summer. Among artists represented were Severini...
Collected last spring by enterprising Edith Gregor Halpert of Manhattan's Downtown Gallery, the Quest show was called "Children in American Folk Art, 1725-1865." Patrons included Mr. & Mrs. Robert Maynard Hutchins and other good Chicagoans. In one room were portraits of children by journeymen painters of the early 19th Century. In another were 45 paintings done by children between 1800 and 1861. Quest rooms on the second floor contained pictures by contemporary artists of the Chicago Public Schools. Chicago ladies found this combination of historical, local, esthetic and sentimental interests so irresistible that they bought paintings right & left...
...were leading 28-to-21, and Sam Baugh was taken out of the game for good. Before the Bears could take advantage of his absence, the final gun exploded. The Redskins had won their first championship of the National Football League. It was probably the most exciting one-man show in the history of professional football...
...biggest local (New York 89: 42,138 members) of any U. S. labor union. By last week I. L. G. W. U. had something else to be proud of. While the Broadway season continued to number more flops than successes, I. L. G. W. U.'s homemade show, Pins and Needles, had become a definite hit. Produced last month by Labor Stage, Inc. as a weekend venture, the show had been so jammed since then that Labor Stage announced last week that it would present the show every night, beginning the week before Christmas...
...sewing hours, to get Pins and Needles in shape. Staged in a remodeled Manhattan cinema house, with an amateur cast and two grand pianos for orchestra, its rollicking satire made critics agree that I. L. G. W. U. members were class-conscious but not grim about it, that their show was funnier and faster than many a Broadway revue...