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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Whitney Museum. U. S. painting and sculpture only, with particular accent on contemporary work, is collected in Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney's salmon stucco repository at No. 10 West 8th Street in Greenwich Village. Best known pieces: Bellows' Dempsey-Tunney Fight and The Blue Clown by Walt Kuhn...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Bache Museum | 5/10/1937 | See Source »

...Hindemith became concertmaster of the Frankfort Opera, but was conscripted for the army shortly afterward. There he served as a drummer because he had no training in brasses. After the Armistice Hindemith returned to Frankfort to compose. He concentrated on chamber music, also wrote settings for poems by Walt Whitman, ballad cycles, strange discordant operas with such names as Murderer, Women's Hope, The Nusch-Nuschi (for marionettes), Sancta Susanna...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Hindemith in Washington | 4/19/1937 | See Source »

...game than for telling the rest of the world all about what they had learned. Three years ago, Warner Brothers released a one-reel short called Good Badminton. Last year the firm of Fanchon & Marco hired Jess Willard to play exhibition matches in movie houses. Current rumor is that Walt Disney will produce a badminton cartoon in which Mickey Mouse will oppose Donald Duck. In Hollywood, badminton is not only handy as a sport and reducing exercise but also as an excuse for new poses by actresses like Sonja Henie, Glenda Farrell, Joan Crawford, Anita Louise, Simone Simon (see cuts...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Sport: Badminton's Rebirth | 4/12/1937 | See Source »

Also on view in the front hall of the Library, is an exhibition of books belonging to the well-known Boston music-critic, Philip Hale, presented by his wife. Hale was well known as a book collector, and part of his collection of first editions of Walt Whitman and Herman Melville are shown here...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Collections and Critiques | 3/26/1937 | See Source »

...presented only five times in the past. It went to Charles Chaplin in 1928 for his single-handed feat of writing, acting, directing and producing The Circus and to Warner Brothers for "marking an epoch in motion picture history"; Shirley Temple (1935) for greatest individual contribution to screen entertainment;* Walt Disney (1932) for inventing Mickey Mouse; and David Wark Griffith (1936) as a belated tribute for outstanding contributions "to the advancement of the motion picture." Last week the Committee decided that in 1935-36 cinema had received a contribution outstanding "for having revolutionized one of the most important branches...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: Oscars of 1937 | 3/15/1937 | See Source »

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