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Last week 71-year-old Frank Crowninshield, the dapper, white-haired fine arts editor of Vogue, who once wrote an article entitled "Ten Thousand Nights in a Dinner Coat," sold at auction his influential collection of modern, mostly French art. The 1019 items offered at Manhattan's Parke-Bernet Galleries put a total of $181,747 into "Crownie's" elegantly tailored pocket and the event itself had the quality of social luster, with a note of high gaga, which he dearly loves...
...best-seller of the '90s (The Sorrows of Satan), was so sure of her literary immortality that she willed that her Stratford-on-Avon estate be preserved as a shrine-"the home of a great English novelist." Preparations were begun last week, 19 years after her death, to auction the place off because royalties from the Corelli books have not been enough to maintain it. With it goes a genuine gondola which she imported (with a gondolier) from Venice...
John Adams' opinion of George Washington, expressed in a private letter sold at a Manhattan auction last week, was that "if he was not the greatest President he was the best Actor of Presidency we have ever had." On another contemporary: "The Declaration of Independence I always considered as a theatrical show. Jefferson ran away with all the stage effect of that; i.e. all the glory of it." The letter, among the family papers of Philadelphia's late Alexander Biddle, went for $575 to an undisclosed buyer...
Hearts & Showers. In Falls City, Neb., nine-year-old Jimmy Shafer rode his pony into an auction ring, started weeping as the bidding rose, wept increasingly, set the bidders blubbering, finally caused the auctioneer to sob out: "I just can't do it." The sale was called...
Best scene was probably that of the slave auction. In other jungle scenes unrealistic lighting detracted from the net effect. In general, however, the play was very good. A short production by itself, the entire effect was lengthened by the addition of an uncalled for pre-curtain nightmare. Its elimination is the most outstanding improvement which night be suggested...