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...show of 96 pictures by 71-year-old Portraitist Sir Oswald Birley was made notable especially by the splendid, painted presences of Princess Elizabeth and her handsome prince in fancy regalia...
...Robert Birley, at 45, is only 15 years younger than Elliott, but he might be of another generation. He believes that science is the backbone of a modern education, holds with few old school traditions, was a member of Britain's famed Fleming Committee to get underprivileged children into the public (i.e., private) schools. About the only break with tradition the Emperor had made was to abolish required top hats, and that was because of a shortage of toppers. Many Etonians were willing to bet that new Headmaster Birley might find some other Etonian practices...
...Goudge-Coward-McCann ($2.50). This rather touching, mildly mystical story of England-after-Dunkirk transforms England's caste system into one big family of stout-fellas. High point of this social salad-mixing comes when a shy little housekeeper, Miss Brown, proposes to her elderly patrician employer, Charles Birley. No snob, Birley prefers bachelorhood. But Miss Brown's leveling instincts achieve satisfaction in others who need her: two cockney children and a soul-sick refugee violinist whom she selflessly agrees to marry...
...Birley, who sent Robinson his photograph. That night Drug Clerk Robinson dreamed he saw Birley making mystic motions over a corpse, thought he heard him saying: "This is Psychiana, the power that will bring new life to a spiritually dead world." Next day the drug clerk wrote the cotton broker: "You are to be associated with me in this business. Please send $40,000." Fortnight later, a bank in Spokane, Wash. informed Robinson that $20,000 had been deposited to his account, that Mr. Birley promised $20,000 more the following week...
...Suit." Of Artist Sir William Orpen's portrait of Sir Ray Lankester: "The design of the sitter's suit shows dots and blotches as large as buttons. On what loom, one wonders, was such a fabric woven?" About all that the tailor-editor-art critic approved was Artist Oswald Birley's portrait of George V in black jacket, double-breasted fawn waistcoat, grey striped trousers...