Word: showing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Each summer, to the smoke-blackened, pseudo-Renaissance pile of the Carnegie Institute at Pittsburgh come canvases from all over Europe and the U. S. for the Carnegie International, world's biggest competitive show of contemporary painting. In the Institute's galleries they are expertly hung by Jack Nash, a slight, nervous, white-pated ex-jockey. Once the jury of award did the hanging, but for the past 20 years Director Homer Saint-Gaudens has given the job to Jack, who pays small heed to names, more to effect. Jack has seen enough Carnegie juries in action...
...usual, critics mourned that the right artists were being honored at the wrong time. More direct cause for mourning came from the fact that this will be the last Carnegie International until the end of World War II. War I stopped the show for six years; Depression...
...another. As a comedy of bad manners, The Man Who Came to Dinner turns crude now & then. But with Actor Woolley excellent in the fattest of parts, with most of the jokes buttered on both sides, and with everything from convicts to cockroaches to brighten up the cast, the show is comedy in the best style-all Woollcott and a yard wide...
...feature of the Buhl star chamber with which Director Stokley is particularly Punch-pleased is an engineering stunt unique among the world's planetaria. When the audience assembles for the show, the big, dumbbell-shaped Zeiss projector is nowhere to be seen. It is mounted on a platform in a concealed pit under the floor. When the lights go out for the show, a section of the floor drops a few feet, slides sidewise under the basement ceiling. Controlled from a panel of small green lights, the projector rises like an orchestra in a cinemansion. The stars burst...
...Except for a homemade planetarium at Springfield, Mass, which does not show planets. Contrived by Technician Frank Korkosz of Springfield's Museum of Natural History, it cost less than $12,000. Cost of Buhl star thrower...