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Numerous examples of the Danish silverwork of George Jensen are on display in the Germanic Museum to remain for a period of a month...
Many pieces in the group which are being exhibited are replicas of objects acquired by museums abroad and in America. Among these are copies of a teapot and a water jug, now in the Danish Museum at Copenhagen; of a candle-labrum and bonbon dish, in the Metropolitan Museum of Art; two bowls, one in the Detroit Muesum of Art and the other a property of the Germanic Museum itself; and finally, a large bowl in the Mussee des Beaux Arts, Paris...
...Marie Sterner Galleries Arthur Kaufmann, capable and colorful German emigre, showed character studies of the late George Gershwin, Luise Rainer as a plain and pensive 17-year-old in Düsseldorf. At the Georgette Passedoit Gallery were 23 oddities by a healthily impudent 21-year-old Danish girl named Isa Neuhaus. In the U. S. for one year, she has had 20-minute sittings with Bishop Manning, painted subtly all in mauve; Leslie Howard, all in green; Mayor LaGuardia...
...reason for "Salt's" prosperity is that around 1860 when it was struggling to keep alive, Danish geologists learned of a white stone in Greenland which the Eskimos called "ice-that-will-not-melt." The Danes called it Kryolith, and five years later they gave "Salt" exclusive U. S. rights to their product...
...Seas was a Swedish training ship launched in 1912. U. S. Yachtsman Inglis Uppercu bought her in 1929. sold her last year to 74-year-old William S. Gubelmann (National Cash Register Co.). Joseph Conrad, older (1882), smaller (116 ft.), chunkier, was also a training ship-used by the Danish Government for 52 years. Three years ago Author-Adventurer Alan Villiers saw her in Copenhagen, heard she was for sale, snapped her up. took a crew of eight nationalities on a picaresque world cruise, wrote a book about it (Cruise of the Conrad), then sold the ship to 24-year...