Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Lord Grey of Fallodon unveiled a memorial in Westminster Abbey to the late Walter Hines Page, war-time U. S. Ambassador to the Court of St. James. A large crowd of dignitaries attended the impressive ceremony...
Lord Grey: " It is most fitting that this memorial should be in Westminster Abbey, the shrine of so much that is great, honorable and dear in our history, which, not so very long ago, as time is reckoned, was as much a part of his ancestry...
...Morning Post: " As long as the story of the great War is told the name of Walter Hines Page will be recalled with honor and affection in this country. Whatever changes time may bring, it will never invalidate his claim to a niche in the Abbey...
...Passing Show of 1923 is as huge, as sumptuous, as varied as ever, but the arrangement of this hugeness, sumptuousness, et cetera, is carried out with more intelligence and better artistic taste than in any previous one of the series. There are gorgeous spectacles-royal wedding in Westminster Abbey-a striking scene wherein great chandeliers are decorated with ladies of the chorus pinch-hitting for the usual crystal ornaments-a section of the French Revolution-a flash of dear old Fujiyama -and others-dozens of others-too many to count or describe. In fact about everything spectacular that...
John Sargent is the only individual for whom the National Gallery has ever broken its rule against accepting the work of a living artist. Ihe gloomy, smoke-darkened pile facing Trafalgar Square and the Nelson Monument is as British an institution as Westminster Abbey. To be honored by either, artists have had wait for death...