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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1939

Page

48

Cedar Rapids Honors Painter Marvin Cone With Exhibition and Auction

Cedar Rapids celebrates Marvin Cone a longtime Coe College art professor with a yearlong sponsor led display of 48 paintings in the public library gallery and an auction on November 1. Grant Wood introduces a catalog praising Cone’s direct honest realism and poetic depth.

Cedar Rapids Marvin Cone Coe College Cone Wood Cedar Rapids Art Association Grant Wood Art Institute of Chicago A.E.F France Mexico Chicago Art Institute Public Library

Pure Food Men Warn On Watered Oysters Ahead Of Season

F D Ford and City Inspector C H White prepared for the new consumer period with a warning about upcoming surveys over the next two weeks. They noted that oysters with ice or more than 16.25 percent free liquid are illegal to sell and cautioned buyers about cheap oysters. Ford pledged strict enforcement against added sulphites.

F. D. Ford Pure Foods C. H. White Ford

State inspectors to check meat and eggs and gas pumps

Ford announced inspections of hamburger color caused by sulphur additive and will monitor cold storage eggs sold as fresh. Apples must be sold in 48 pound U. S. standard baskets under Iowa law. Gasoline pumps will be inspected and dealers urged to have proper licenses to avoid closures.

Ford U. S Iowa White

Coe Playhouse to Present Four Stage Works This Season

Coe College playhouse to stage four productions directed by Kent Andrews. First, Daughters of Atreus running Oct 25–26 features Dorothy Carr and cast in a Greek drama collection. A Scrap of Paper, a French comedy, debuts Dec 14–15 adapted by Andrews. Wingless Victory, an American tragedy by Maxwell Anderson, stars Katherine Cornell on the New York stage and plays Mar 7.

Coe College Playhouse Kent Andrews Daughters of Atreus Robert Turney Agaememnon Dorothy Carr Wilma Wykle Henrietta Moershel Adele Weymouth Ardeth Dahms Dorothy Plock Bonnie Schermerhorn Phyllis Oetjen Joan Lattner Judy Lattner Anajean Sallack Ellen Swomley Daniel Sweeney William Duffy George Briggs Dick Sabel John Gaskill Ralph Bushee Hubert Sunderman Charles Moes Phyllis Darby David Thompson Dorothy Patterson Bernice Brandal Dorothy Thompson Maxwell Anderson Katherine Cornell New York

New England captain returns with Orient wife in Java Head

George Bernard Shaw play Arms and the Man closes the season on May 9 and 10 at the playhouse. The Chocolate Soldier adaptation from the Balkans follows. Season tickets are on sale at the alumni office on the Coe College campus.

Joseph Hergesheimer New England Orient George Bernard Shaw Balkans Coe College

Managing Editors Conclude Eighth Annual Shop Talk Session

The Associated Press Managing Editors association closed its eighth annual meeting in New York with a morning session on shop talk led by William L. Powers of Vindicator Ohio and Basil L. Walters of the Minneapolis Star Journal.

New York Associated Press Managing Editors Association William L. Powers Volar Town Ohio Vindicator Basil L. Walters Minneapolis Star-Journal

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