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From Boston and Brooklyn, from Chicago and Worcester, from a dozen private collectors, sheaves of water colors arrived at Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries last week for an exhibition to celebrate the 100th anniversary of the birth of the most distinguished U. S. artist the gallery ever sponsored: Winslow Homer. It was a shrewd choice as a memorial exhibition. Greatly honored in his own lifetime, Winslow Homer certainly never thought of himself primarily as a watercolorist. Yet modern critics are generally agreed that the U. S. has produced only three men who could create virile, important work in what...
...Andrew Carnegie had been alive last week he would have felt richly rewarded for having given Manhattan a fine concert hall. Great music was played there by the Philadelphia Orchestra, the Boston Symphony, the New York Philharmonic. Another impressive concert commemorated the 100th birthday of the bearded little Scot who made such hearings possible. With music of a different calibre there was a newcomer at Carnegie Hall last week. She was Edith Lorand, trim, dark-haired Hungarian who fiddles and conducts an orchestra simultaneously...
Postmaster General Farley brought a message from President Roosevelt: "Congratulations from an air-minded sailor. . . . They tell me that the inauguration of the transpacific sky mail, also celebrates the 100th anniversary of the arrival of the first clipper ship in San Francisco...
Playing skirts on a bagpipe that has been in the Carnegie family for 40 years, sporting kilts and the black, green and plum Carnegie tartan, barrel-chested Hugh Grant arrived in Manhattan to take part in the 100th anniversary of Andrew Carnegie's birth. Since 1921 Scot Grant has been official bagpiper at the Carnegies' Skibo Castle, has mounted the battlements every summer morning at 7:45 sharp to pipe Johnnie Cope, Are Ye Awakin'? Given time to pose for cameramen, to announce in a thick brogue, "Yes, I met Mr. Carnegie when he used to give...
Wanted-To buy a church between East 60th and East 100th Streets. For information call Talmadge...