Word: collector
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Good, heh, heh, all the more for me." This loosens up the audience, and prepares them for Van's great line a few hours later. He says to a forward little lassie, "If love were a hobby, you'd be a collector's item...
Reclining Figure (by Harry Kurnitz) is a comedy about an eccentric and difficult art collector, and his daughter and his dealers and his staff. Offered a fake Renoir. Lucas Edgerton feels for the first time a genuine enthusiasm-rather than mere acquisitive excitement-for a picture; and one of Playwright Kurnitz's twists is that, seeing the boss so jubilantly bamboozled. Edgerton's own cowed, stoogelike expert lacks the courage to enlighten...
...some amusing potshots at these methods, and in the last act finally mixes the methods with a lively madness of its own. Helped by Percy Waram's deft performance, the play also gets some fun out of the crotchety Edgerton-for whom, plainly, Philadelphia's late great Collector Albert (Argyrol) Barnes was the inspiration...
...Collector's Item. In Willowick, Ohio, Marianne Baucco, 30, accusing Dentist Lawrence Davis of assault and battery, charged that he forced her to his office floor, removed an upper denture for which she still owed...
...Gushing firm has long been out of business, but Collector Halpert knew that some of the old iron molds must still be around. She searched for ten years up and down New England, finally, last year, found a jumble of 350 Gushing molds in the yard of a Chelsea (Mass.) junkman. Last week in New York's Associated American Artists Galleries, 16 new vanes shaped from the old molds were on exhibition. Considering that they were meant to be seen atop a high perch, the figures were remarkably graceful close up. Almost all were strictly realistic, but they...