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...China Develop an Organized State" is the subject for the Foreign Policy Association's sixth luncheon discussion on Saturday at 1 o'clock in the Copley Plaza...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: F. P. A. Will Meet Saturday | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...heard of Harvard, but would not elaborate, and confined her answer to admitting she was heading for the Copley with a friend from across the Charles. At this point we made the request that she skate tomorrow on the river, guaranteeing her a large crowd, but she smilingly refused...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sonja Henie "Wants to Go Home," She Says, Declining to Skate on the Charles | 1/29/1937 | See Source »

...Federal Theatre gives a comedy called "Help Yourself", by John Coman, at the Copley Theatre this week. The play is a broad adaptation of a script by the Viennese Paul Vulpius, and is staged here by Arthur Ritchie. Its boisterous title indicates the whole tone of the play, for it is a farce-comedy of bluff characters, headlong plot and broad burlesque. Even the heart interest is handled in this way: first the here doesn't want to kiss the heroine, and then he does...

Author: By E. C. B., | Title: CRIMSON PLAYGOER | 1/20/1937 | See Source »

Most famed example of Artist Copley's slow pace is his large portrait of The Knatchbull Family. While years passed and Copley continued to peck at the canvas, Sir Edward Knatchbull's first and second wives died and he married a third, sired a tenth child. Undaunted, Artist Copley got Ladies Knatchbull I and II in the picture as angels in the sky, but later Sir Edward had them painted out. Out of fashion and in debt, Artist Copley died in 1815, twelve years before his son, John Singleton Jr., became Lord Chancellor of England...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Copley Bicentennial | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

...Artist West, Pennsylvania Quaker, was a year younger than John Copley, became the second president of Britain's Royal Academy. He was an American painter only by accident of birth, did no important work until he had left the Colonies for good, circa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Copley Bicentennial | 1/4/1937 | See Source »

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