Word: abbeys
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...sums of money. He once estimated that his Lincoln statues brought him over $260,000. Three of his countless pieces give him a secure place in any history of Art: Adam & Eve, now on the John D. Rockefeller estate at Pocantico Hills; the gaunt standing Lincoln intended for Westminster Abbey, now in Manchester, England; the nude reclining Pan, once the largest single bronze ever cast in the U. S., on the Columbia University campus...
...museum next to his studio in upper Manhattan, opened to the public. Later John D. Rockefeller Jr. donated money to buy the entire collection for the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Fortnight ago came news of more Rockefeller munificence: a gift of $2,500,000 to build a complete Romanesque abbey for the collection and The Hunt of the Unicorn, a $1,100,000 set of 18th Century tapestries to adorn...
...Comedy of Good and Evil" was produced in London in 1924. It has since been produced with succes at the famous Abbey Theatre in Dublin, but the showing here will be the American premiere of the play. Mr. Hughes is already known in this country for his novel "High Wind in Jamaica," also known as "The Innocent Voyage...
...front during the Civil War which made the reputation of Harper's Weekly. Every schoolboy knows him today for his vivid canvas, The Gulf Stream, in which a giant Negro is sprawled on the deck of a mastless catboat while sharks circle the derelict. Suave Socialite Edwin Austin Abbey used to have almost as much trouble with his models as Eakins. One of the most popular illustrators in the U. S., he was paid $200 and $300 apiece for his drawings by Harper's Weekly, but spent almost as much as that on each one for authentic costumes...
WHEELS AND BUTTERFLIES - William Butler Yeats-Macmillan ($2). Latest Abbey Theatre plays, with introductions, of the good grey poet of Ireland...