Word: whitneys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Probably no person of great wealth has done more for living U. S. artists than Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney. But her purchases are now all regulated by the trustees of Manhattan's Whitney Museum. Mrs. Rockefeller is not yet incorporated as an impersonal buying agency. The prizes she offers, the pictures she acquires and the gifts she makes are all done with such skillful reticence that few recognize her for what she undoubtedly is: the outstanding individual patron of living artists...
...various times with William Merritt Chase, Robert Henri and Kenneth Hayes Miller, Max Kuehne started making his own picture frames because he could not afford to buy any. It was not long before he was making many of the frames for the Barnes Foundation in Merion, Pa., the Whitney Museum in Manhattan. From frames he went in for furniture, later for lacquer screens...
...amateur hour to convince people she has talent as a singer. The boy (John Howard) is an ice cream vendor who successfully sings a duet with her but bridles when he learns her identity. The tedium of this is relieved by a small, able, comely tap dancer named Eleanore Whitney, Dave Chasen as a one-man band, and Willie Howard, whose great ambition is to sing "La Donna è mobile'' from Rigoletto without being forcibly stopped...
...annual Kirkland House Christmas dinner will be held on Wednesday evening. The program includes several skits which are to be presented, followed by singing. Edward A. Whitney, associate professor of History and master of the House last year has sent four pigs to be roasted for the occasion...
...Forman's companions were killed by Chinese bandits. MARCH HARE-Elsa Smithers-Oxford ($3). Quiet autobiography of a native of the South African Republic who lived through the Boer War, several gold rushes, knew many of the South African notables of her day. THROUGH MY OPEN DOOR - Lucia Whitney-Farrar & Rinehart ($2.50). Story of the ten-year illness of a well-known U. S. novelist who writes under a pseudonym, gives her impressions of the affairs of her friends as they appeared to an emotional, poetic, bedridden observer...