“Anne Sweeney Joins The Lego® Group’s Board of Directors”

Lego A/S (doing business as The LEGO® Group) announced on Sunday, May 3, A.D. 2020, that Kåre Schultz, C.E.O. of Teva Pharmaceutical Industries, Ltd. had stepped down from The LEGO® Group’s Board of Directors and been replaced by Anne Sweeney. Ms. Sweeney is a member of the Board of Directors of Netflix and the Mayo Clinic. She is also a Deans Distinguished Fellow at Harvard University Graduate School of Education.

She was formerly Co-Chair of Disney Medica Networks and President of Disney-A.B.C. Television Group, which includes The Walt Disney Company’s global entertainment and news television networks and cable channels, a group of eight television stations owned by A.B.C. (as opposed to affiliate stations), as well as radio and publishing businesses. She also had oversight of Disney’s equity in Hulu and A&E Networks. In March of 2014, she announced via an interview in The Hollywood Reporter that after eighteen years art Disney, she would only renew her contract through January of 2015 so she could pursue an interest in becoming a television director. Prior to her work for The Walt Disney Company, she held executive positions at Nickelodeon for twelve years and FX Networks for three years. Ms. Sweeney has a B.A. from The College of New Rochelle and an Ed.M. from Harvard.

Figure 1 Credit: The LEGO® Group Caption: Anne M. Sweeney, who shocked the entertainment world in 2014 when she announced in 2015 she would step down as Co-Chair of Disney Media Networks and President of the Disney-A.B.C. Television Group in January of 2015, in order to become a television director, and instead joined the Board of Directors of Netflix in March of 2015, joined the Board of Directors of The LEGO® Group in May of 2020.

Thomas Kirk Kristiansen, Chairman of the Board of Directors and great-grandson of The LEGO® Group founder Ole Kirk Christiansen, stated, “LEGO A/S has developed tremendously since 2007 when Kåre Schultz first joined as a Member of the Board. I would like to thank Kåre for his dedicated contributions to this development over more than 12 years. Furthermore, I am please to welcome Anne Sweeney as a new Member of the Board Anne brings key strategic competencies within entertainment, learning and digitalisation from an impressive career. I am looking forward to be working with Anne on the Board.”[1]

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[1] This is not a misspelling of digitalization. Mr. Kristiansen used the British spelling.

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The Field Museum of Natural History in March, 2018

The Field Museum of Natural History’s entrance pavilions are at opposite ends of Stanley Field Hall, which has a north-south axis. The two porticos (porches) are each reached by two successive flights of stairs.

Both porticos of The Field Museum of Natural History are flanked by two small porches, which each have two caryatids (columns in the shape of maidens). On the facade, the wings are adorned with a colonnade of attached fluted Ionic columns. The building’s fluted Ionic columns have volutes (spiral-scroll-shaped crowns).

Each portico of The Field Museum is tetrastyle in antis with double-ranked fluted Ionic columns capped by volutes. An entablature crowned by a pediment rests atop the columns. The continuous frieze in each case is relatively plain. The wave-themed acroteria that crown the pediments are borrowed from the Palace of a Fine Arts, which housed The Field Museum until 1920 and now houses the Museum of Science and Industry.

The Field Museum of Natural History isn’t “just” a museum. Visitors can watch scientists at work through windows at the Daniel F. and Ada L. Rice DNA Discovery Center’s Pritzker Laboratory.

Mrs. Charles (Laura) Schweppe, a daughter and co-heiress of John Graves Shedd, the former partner of Marshall Field I who succeeded him as president of Marshall Field & Company, and who, under the guidance of Stanley Field founded the Shedd Aquarium, donated an exhibit of 100 bronze sculptures by Malvina Hoffman to The Field Museum. They represent every race, nation, and tribe in the human family (more or less). On January 9, 1933, the first group, Unity of Man, went on display.

In addition to the four figures Henry Hering (1874-1949) made for the corners of Stanley Field Hall, he also made the twelve plaster round lion head shield escutcheons that line it. These are replicas of the marble round lion head shield escutcheon he made for the pediment of the facade of The Field Museum of Natural History.

Christmas at Chicago’s Union Station

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a POLAR EXPRESS display in the Great Hall of Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a closeup of the THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is the headlamp of THE POLAR EXPRESS steam locomotive mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Union Station Company rail car loaded with super-size gifts is part of THE POLAR EXPRESS mock-up in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This is a Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Chicago’s Union Station.

Credit: S.M. O’Connor Caption: This Christmas tree in the Great Hall of Union Station in downtown Chicago has emblems of Amtrak, Metra, and historic railroad companies whose routes they now operate like Burlington.

Cinemas sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) Helped Design

This is the Pickwick Theatre Building, an Art Deco movie palace and office building erected in downtown Park Ridge, Illinois in 1928.

The architects were Roscoe Harold Zook and William F. McCaughey. Sculptor Alfonso Iannelli, who also worked on the Adler Planetarium, contributed to this building.

In recent years, the Vlahakis family, who’ve owned the building for 50 years, have been able to turn the building into a multiplex by adding smaller theaters around the original auditorium. The latest one, with a screen four times the size of the one in the auditorium, will open in time to screen INFINITY WARS in May, if all goes well.

The Catlow Movie Theater is a cinema that opened in downtown Barrington, Illinois in 1927. The Tudor Revival style of architecture is not confined to the facade of the cinema. As with the Pickwick Theatre in Park Ridge, Illinois, sculptor Alfonso Iannelli (1888-1965) played a role in the design and decoration of The Catlow Movie Theater.