Word: studioful
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Dates: during 1950-1950
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...listeners need not be too hasty about cheering a clear gain. The replacement for the soap operas is a new giveaway, sponsored by General Mills and called Live Like a Millionaire (weekdays, 2:30 p.m., NBC). Its gimmick: children are invited to bring their "talented" parents to the studio to compete for a weekly $1,000 prize and free trips...
...that more than 50% and possibly as much as 90% of future TV entertainment will have to be on film. Smalltime independent film producers are already busily grinding out TV shorts. Even Skouras guardedly admitted last week to 20th Century-Fox stockholders that part of the company's studio would be devoted to making films for TV in the home. Going much further, veteran Producer Cecil B. DeMille sees Phonevision, or something like it, as a major future outlet for the movies...
When the $80 million Habsburg collection was on exhibition in Washington last winter, the most popular of its 131 paintings turned out to be Dutch Master Jan Vermeer's The Artist in His Studio and Venetian Jacopo Tintoretto's Susanna and the Elders. Last week Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum found that New Yorkers' tastes were just about the same-with one difference: Rembrandt van Rijn's dark and pensive Portrait of the Artist, painted when he was 46, had moved into second place, pushed Tintoretto's plump, golden-haired Susanna into third...
...provided on an extra-curricular basis. Just as the student with musical talent can play in the orchestra or sing in the glee club with the best professional direction, so a student should be able to do water colors or model with the aid of really competent guidance. A studio open to all students with a professional painter or sculptor in charge is a desirable...
There is already considerable student interest in such a studio. An even greater potential interest exists, for a great many students would like to know what art is, and have not found out from "appreciation" courses. If the widespread concern with education for the "whole man" is to mean more than words, Harvard must organize a creative arts studio. Robert S. Beckwith...