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...fads too often puff them out of line with real values. Last week for the first time since 1927 works by such debatable modernists as Amédé Modigliani, Marie Laurencin, Pablo Picasso, Jules Pascin and Maurice Utrillo were opened to the rude winter blast of a public auction in Manhattan's Rains Auction Rooms. Before a hard-boiled dealer and socialite crowd, one of Modigliani's tuberculous women sold for the evening's top price, $3,300; another for $650. A pale, pink Pascin girl brought $800; a smudge-eyed Laurencin woman, $550; a Picasso...
...seat of Jefferson County is Louisville (pop. 1,650) which was the capital of Georgia from 1795 to 1805. In the centre of the town's old-fashioned Common still stands the roofed block on which until 70 years ago slaves were sold at auction. Above the block hangs the bell that summoned buyers and sellers of black flesh from the surrounding countryside. Last week, for the first time in years, proud little Louisville (pronounced Lewisville) found itself in the bright beam of national news...
...Minneapolis' Municipal Auditorium appeared freckle-faced, earnest Actress Eva Le Gallienne to auction off four cakes at a Roosevelt birthday ball. Briskly she banged a gavel, exhorted 4,000 shuffling, indifferent dancers through a microphone: "These cakes represent something! They represent the struggle of a man to overcome a tremendous physical handicap. ... I wasn't born in America, but I'll buy that cake myself for $15.'' The crowd booed and heckled when she called for bids, forcing her to knock down the cake for $20. Even hotter than she was two months ago while...
...Star Spangled Banner manuscript was not included in the great collection of paintings which, with his house, Mr. Walters left to the city of Baltimore upon his death in 1931. Instead, as part of his private estate it was sent to New York for sale at public auction. When the news was broken to Mrs. Reuben Ross Holloway, a Colonial Dame, she issued a ringing pronouncement which ended...
Prior to the Manhattan auction, a paper manufacturer named Louis Schulman borrowed $5,000 to put to his own $10,000 to buy the manuscript and present it to President Roosevelt. Henry Jacques Gaisman, board chairman of Gillette Safety Razor, was willing to go to $7,500 to present it "to the American people." Before he could finish his speech bids went to $24,000 and the manuscript was sold to the ubiquitous Dr. Abraham Simon Wolf Rosenbach who calmed patriots by announcing that for a "small profit" he was acting on behalf of the trustees of the Walters Gallery...