“The Human Element Is Important, Too, in Photos of the Elements” – May 18, 1941

PM, May 18, 1941

“What Are We Going To Do About It?”
Abraham Reles… (Murder, Inc.)
Artists don’t live in the Village anymore…
Aquarium may move to Coney Island…
Governors Island… (photos by Alan Fisher)
“New York Enjoying Spring Fever,” Hippos (Rosie and Schlemiel), etc. (Great series of photos by M. Engel)
New Citizens Day: Alexandra Tolstoy, “daughter of Russian author Leo Tolstoy…” (photos by Gene Badger)
Weather Photography, edited by Ralph Steiner…
International Society for Contemporary Music… (icsm.org)
Re. Utah Smith at MoMA… (photo by Irving Haberman) (Rev. Utah Smith on The Hound Blog)

screenshot from moma.org

“The fourth program in the series of Coffee Concerts at the Museum of Modern Art will be Jubilee, a Negro revival meeting, on Wednesday evening, May 21, at nine. The prayer meeting and “anniversary,” complete with gospel singers and elocutionist, will be led by the Reverend Utah Smith, evangelist, as master of ceremonies. The Reverend Smith delivers his religious messages with the aid of an electrical guitar. Some of his preaching is extemporaneous; some is part of his original repertoire. His theme song is “I Got Two Wings.”
He has preached as an itinerant evangelist for twenty years, mostly in the south where “folks is more church goin’ than Northerners.” Louise Crane, who has arranged the Coffee Concerts for the Museum, first heard the Reverend Smith in a small church in Newark and invited him to participate in the series. Appearing with him are twelve singers, members of his flock in Newark…” (pdf: moma.org)