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In addition to the Klee Symposium two others were held in April; one on Automobile Design entitled, "The Esthetics of Automobile Design," and another on Films, "Does the Public Get What It Wants?" The speakers for the former were: J. M. Crawford, Vice-President of the General Motors Corporation; Wilder Hobson, car owner and licensed driver; Raymond Loewy, design consultant for the postwar Studebaker; George Nelson, architect and industrial designer; D. Cameron Peck, collector of fine automobiles, President of the Antique Automobile Club of America, President, Sports Car Club of America; Howard Darrin, designer for Kaiser- Fraser; and Philip C. Johnson, who acted as Moderator.

Harpers Magazine in a provocative review of the evening concluded with, "The Museum did well to bring these lively intelligences together, even though little came of it. The only technical imperfection was the necessity, the auditorium of the Museum being so small, of turning away as many again as it would hold. Next time, begging their pardon, they should hire a hall."

Speakers for the Film Symposium were: Mary Pickford and Robert Montgomery, from the point of view of the actor; Janice Loeb, as co-producer of THE QUIET ONE; Gilbert Seldes, as film critic; Arthur Mayer, as theatre owner and distributor. Dr. Charles Siepmann, Professor of Education, New York University, acted as Moderator.

POETRY EVENINGS

At the instigation of a committee composed of Mrs. E.B. Parkinson, Mrs. W. Murray Crane, Mrs. Richard Deutsch, Mrs. Matthew Mellon, Monroe Wheeler and Lloyd Frankenberg, a series of Five Evenings with Modern Poets was given at two week intervals in the spring. The poets participating were: W. H. Auden and Marianne Moore, E. E. Cummings, William Carlos Williams, Robert Frost and Dylan Thomas. 

The success of these poetry evenings has been so gratifying to the sponsors that another series is being planned for the winter of '50-'51.

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Audience participation always provides a lively part of the discussion period at these special Museum events. Here, a member of the public states his likes and dislikes at the Film Symposium, "Does The Public Get What It Wants?" (Photograph courtesy Homer Page).

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