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...buildings of the Athenian Acropolis and of the sculptural works of the six greatest Greek sculptors. Roman art is discussed cursorily just before the end of the half-year, and the course concludes with the monuments of the Age of Constantine. Because Professor Chase is primarily an archaeologist, the approach to the important monuments is archaelogical rather than aesthetic; the subject matter is seldom pedantic, and is continually enlivened with mythological and anecdotal detail...
...Buckler is a 'native of Baltimore, who has been a lawyer, an archaeologist, an assistant director of the American Expedition to Sardis, and a special agent of the Embassy in London during the World War. He is vice-president of the Hellenic Society and the author of a book on "Lydian Inscriptions." The lecture will be of special interest because of the surprising recent advancement of Byzantine Art as revealed by the mosaics uncovered in 1928 in the great mosque at Damascus...
...common in Kentucky and Ohio. In one of them he discovered "1,000 skeletons," flint arrowheads, bits of metal that may have indicated a traveling and trading people. But the basis for the "3,000-year-old" guess, the delineation of civilization and culture, were obscure. No archaeologist of standing could last week be located to say whether the Wickliffe diggings were a "buried city" or another Indian burial ground...
Died, Sophie Engastromenos Schliemann, 80, archaeologist, relict of the late great Archaeologist Heinrich Schliemann who uncovered an ancient town which he claimed to be Troy; in Athens. After 15 years of woe with his first wife, whom he divorced, Schliemann asked the Greek Orthodox Archbishop of Athens to pick a Greek bride for him, "of the true Greek type, black-haired and, if possible, beautiful." The Archbishop picked Sophie, 16, who lived happily with Schliemann for 21 years until his death...
...With customary reclame, last week Herex announced that Betty Sturgis Field, cousin of playwright Preston Sturgis, wife of Henry Field (archaeologist of the Field Museum, nephew of Capitalist Stanley Field), would henceforth conduct "The Social Whirl" for the paper...