Word: aten
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Among the products of the widespread U. S. yearning for a new national anthem was a $3,000 prize competition sponsored by Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan, philanthropist, instigator of the Brooks-Bright Foundation (for the exchange of British and U. S. schoolboys). Last week the judges, Tenor Lambert Murphy, Musical Writer Sigmund Spaeth, Poet Witter Bynner, Baritone Reinald Werrenrath, announced that the best anthem had been submitted by Musical Writer Frederick Herman Martens (words) of Rutherford, N. J., and Pianist Leo Ornstein (music), that they would divide the prize. Final stanza of their anthem, entitled America...
When this dilemma presented itself to Mrs. Florence Brooks-Aten of Manhattan she decided not to pay the bill. Painter George de Forest Brush promptly sued. The case was called for the third time in Manhattan last week. Mrs. Brooks-Aten displayed her matronly face to the jury, produced testimony that the portrait gave her shoe-button eyes, that her figure had been made to look like that of a "stuffed doll." These mishaps, however lamentable if true, did not concern the jury, which was faced with deciding whether or not, after paying Painter Brush for the finished portrait...
After the first trial, Painter Brush was awarded a verdict of $4,000. The second was a mistrial, and after the third Mrs. Brooks-Aten announced that she would appeal the case first to the Appellate Division of the State Supreme Court and later, if necessary, to the Court of Appeals (highest court in New York...
Since Painter Brush is already 74 years old, it is unlikely that he will collect any money from Mrs. Brooks-Aten. No foxy sycophant tricking unwary ladies with oiled flatteries for which they can ill afford to pay, Artist Brush had better things to do last week than to gloat upon the precedent his suit had established or to bewail the obdurateness of Mrs. Brooks-Aten. It was the second week of his first comprehensive public exhibition at the Grand Central Art Galleries, Manhattan...