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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Oct 15, 1939

Page

6

Local Cedar Rapids Exhibit Honors Marvin Cone Painter

A Civic group funds a year away from teaching for Marvin Cone. 48 paintings display at the Cedar Rapids public library gallery through October with an auction November 1. Grant Wood provides a foreword praising Cone’s direct realism and poetic depth in his mature art.

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

Pure Food Men Warn About Watered Oysters Ahead of Season

F. D. Ford state pure foods inspector and city inspector C. H. White prepared for the new consumer buying season with a warning about surveys to be conducted in two weeks. They noted oysters with excess free liquid above legal limits cannot be sold, and warned against cheap oysters and the illegal use of sulphites.

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

State meat and eggs inspection moves eyed

Ford said inspectors will watch hamburger color and sulfur additives. Fresh eggs sold as cold storage eggs must be marked. Apples must meet U S standard baskets of 48 pounds per bushel under Iowa law. Gasoline pumps to be inspected and dealers licensed to avoid closures.

Ford U. S Iowa White

Coe Playhouse Presents Four Plays This Season

Coe College playhouse will stage four productions under Kent Andrews. The opener Daughters of Atreus runs Oct 25 26 with a large cast. A Scrap of Paper a French comedy of manners appears Dec 14 15. Wingless Victory Maxwell Anderson drama headlines March 7 with Katherine Corneil noted star.

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 Brandau Dorothy Thompson Maxwell Anderson Katherine Corneil New York

New England Captain Returns with Orient Wife in Java Head

Shaw's Arms and the Man closes the season May 9 and 10 at the playhouse. The Chocolate Soldier adapts from the same Balkans comedy. Season tickets on sale at the alumni office on Coe College campus.

Joseph Hergesheimer New England Orient George Bernard Shaw Balkans Coe College

Managing Editors Conclude Conference With Sho Talk Session

The Associated Press Managing Editors association ended its eighth annual meeting in New York with a morning session on "shop talk." Leaders included William L. Powers of the Vindicator in Youngstown Ohio and Bass L. Walters of the Star-Journal in Minneapolis.

New York Associated Press Managing Editors Association William L. Powers Youngstown, Ohio Vindicator Bass L. Walters Minneapoli Star-Journal

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