Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Engaged. Helen ("Billie") Hicks, 26, sturdy golfer who won the U. S. women's amateur championship in 1931; to Widower Whitney Harb, 44, president of a North Little Rock, Ark. auto agency; in Little Rock...
...Nothing Sacred" was produced by Selznic International, which is vaguely affiliated with United Artists. David O. Selznic happens to be in the good graces of John Hay Whitney, who owns the Technlcolor process, the best color process developed commericially to date. Last year he produced "A Star is Born," with all those frightful orange and blue sunsets. After much experimenting, for which his color director, William A. Wellman, deserves great credit, he has produced in "Nothing Sacred" the most true-to-life film yet to appear. When Miss Lombard is draged out of the East River, she looks wet. When...
...Whitney Museum, a memorial show of the water colors of Charles Demuth surrounded a festive holiday crowd with the soft, rich colors and animated line of a master whom most critics rate second only to John Marin in his medium. Demuth died in October 1935, aged 52, after 20 years of quiet painting in the old Demuth home in Lancaster, Pa. The Demuth tobacco business in Lancaster, founded by a German forebear in 1770. is still carried on there by the family. Artist Demuth studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts and for several years in Paris...
...ceremonial museum shows of U. S. painting, artists reach their widest public. Conspicuously successful in 1937 were the biennial show of the Corcoran Art Gallery in April, the U. S. room at the Carnegie International, the more select and sparkling show of contemporary art at the Whitney Museum in November, and the even more select exhibition of "Paintings for Paris" which the Museum of Modern Art put on display during November and December-paintings by 36 U. S. artists chosen to be among those whose work the Museum plans to take to Paris this spring for the first big exhibition...
...Federal conciliator tried to end the busmen's holiday, nine of Greyhound Corp.'s affiliated companies filed one of the most remarkable suits in the history of U. S. labor. They asked $6,300,000 damages from the Brotherhood of Railroad Trainmen, President Alexander Fell Whitney and 19 other Brothers on the ground that the strike was called, not to improve wages and working conditions of bus drivers, but in behalf of railroad passenger traffic. The trainmen for years, it was argued, have tried "to limit development of highway passenger transportation." It seemed quite obvious to Greyhound...