Word: shows
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pictures on exhibition, 174 had been invited by the Corcoran jury. They included more or less competent work by most of the noted U.S. painters. But there was nothing surprising in the lot. The other 13 pictures in the show-culled from 2,000 entries in open competition-were no better and no worse than the invited ones. The New York World-Telegram's Emily Genauer, one of the few U.S. art critics with a nose for news, set out to discover how the jury had operated...
...letter to Author Merton, Waugh said: "I believe there are thousands of men and women in the world who are temperamentally suited to monastic life but have no effective vocation simply because they are ignorant of the very existence of religious life. Indeed, a thesis might be developed to show that the health of society depends on a right balance between monks and laymen-the revolution of the 14th Century took place because the monasteries were full of people ... who had no business there, and the present revolution is being made by people who ought to be in monasteries...
...York tabloid Mirror), McCrary was confident that he could survive TV's headaches. He was also shrewd enough to know that he had a TV asset in his pretty brunette wife Jinx Falkenburg, onetime model and cinemactress, who shares his over-the-breakfast-table radio show...
...different from the vaudeville routines offered by the Hooperating leaders (Milton Berle, Arthur Godfrey, Ed Sullivan). "TV eats up material so fast," he reasoned, "that the only dependable source is the day-to-day flow of news." Mixing the techniques of newsreel, theater and movies, McCrary developed an ambitious show called Preview, a "magazine of the air," which Philip Morris sponsored. Last month, Preview went...
...opening show ran $5,200 over its budget and was a wretched failure. McCrary knocked over an easel loaded with placards which never did get put back in proper order; gremlins got into the balopticon (magic lantern), and the audio-control system went haywire. A less tenacious man than McCrary might have been crushed by the reviews (Variety: ". . . fantastically bad"; New York Times: ". . . involved hocus-pocus...