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...ruling passion from fire engines to art) to 1936 Collector Dale bought French paintings as shrewdly as he formerly consolidated power companies. His collection, now valued at $6,000,000 to $15,000,000, outgrew three Manhattan apartments, now fills five floors of a museumlike private mansion on East 79th Street, and is rated by experts as the most comprehensive of its kind in the U.S. Without children, 58-year-old, redheaded Chester Dale will probably leave his masterpieces to some big U.S. museum. The question of which one has got hungry U.S. museum directors into a dither...
Birthdays. Nicholas Murray Butler, president of Columbia, "trying to get my golf score down to my age," his 79th. William Henry Jackson, gimlet-eyed pioneer photographer, still toting a camera, his 98th. Cinemactress Bette Davis, present with Governor Blood of New Hampshire, Governor Willis of Vermont, Senator Bridges of New Hampshire, some 10,000 others, at the world premiere of her latest picture, The Great Lie, in Littleton, N.H., her 33rd...
Last week Columbia University's money-minded President Nicholas Murray Butler blurted a worry. "War conditions," he told newsmen on his 79th birthday, had already cost his university "several hundred thousand dollars" in tuition fees. Butler and his fellow presidents knew that worse was yet to come...
...Damrosch lovingly conducted a new version of Cyrano, which he had polished up during the past three years. The opera was given in concert form in Carnegie Hall, with soloists and full orchestra. The long performance gave Conductor Damrosch perceptible pleasure: it was practically a celebration of his 79th birthday, just past. Next day the critics behaved like good children. Nearest to the mark (that Cyrano was appallingly dull) was Edward O'Gorman of the Post: ". . . a score . . . that the average listener might not journey far to hear, but one that he would probably like once he got there...
...last week three of the five majority justices of Hammer v, Dagenhart were long since dead. The fourth, James C. McReynolds, celebrated his 79th birthday in retirement last week (TIME, Feb. 3) after 26 years on the Court. The fifth, mild, urbane, ultra-conservative Willis Van Devanter, had retired in 1937. Last week, five days after the new Court unanimously overruled Hammer v. Dagenhart, old (81) ex-Justice Van Devanter died of a heart attack at Washington. On the bench in his seat sat Justice Hugo La Fayette Black, first Roosevelt appointee to the Court. With Tommy Corcoran and Benjamin...