Word: showness
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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That attraction, advertised in facsimiles of century-old handbills, was just one of the highlights of a show that jammed the St. Louis City Art Museum last week. A "Mississippi Panorama" of 347 paintings, prints and riverboat models and mementos, the exhibition had been put together by bustling 38-year-old Museum Director Perry Rathbone, who first thought of it while he was serving in a New Caledonia naval base during the war. "I was suffering from a strong attack of nostalgia," Rathbone explains. His idea was to "reveal the look and character of the mid-continent's waterways...
...Place of Patrons. It was a show calculated to arouse the same "strong attack of nostalgia" that had inspired Rathbone to stage it. To conservatives who might question the art quality of the packet-boat china, menus and bills of lading that Rathbone had interspersed among the river canvases, Showman Rathbone had a commonsense reply: "The first job is to get the people into our museums. The future of art belongs to them and not to the recherche group of the last century. The age of the private patron is gone, and the mass support required to take its place...
...show was intended to represent solutions to "the problem of adequately-or gloriously-commemorating the sacrifice of those soldiers and sailors who died in battle." The question was: Were its solutions adequate, let alone glorious...
...kitchens. In many of the buildings the roof-timbers were still in place. Apparently the city had not been burned or otherwise damaged by invaders. It seems to have been abandoned peacefully and rather suddenly. To judge by the architecture, its last inhabitants were Moslems, but certain decorative details show Greek influence. Mr. Fairservis hopes that its ruins may hide Greek manuscripts preserved by the dry climate...
When he played master of ceremonies on a quiz show last season, Groucho Marx worked a radio wonder by winning the prized Peabody Award as the best comedian on the air. This week he worked another one. After Variety had reported that giveaways are giving way to "entertainment without the gimmicks," Groucho sold his radio giveaway, You Bet Your Life (Wed. 9 p.m. E.S.T., CBS), to a new sponsor (De Soto) for five years starting...