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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...COLLECTOR'S WHATNOT-Van Loot, Kilgallen and Elphinstone - Houghton Mifflin ($2.50). If you have ever bickered with an antique dealer for a genuine rat-tail spoon or a Jacobean chair that was made in Newark, you will enjoy this hilarious take-off on antiquing and antiquers. The Collector's Whatnot does for the antique-mania what The Cruise of the Kawa did for the South-Sea-craze...
...Phillips Memorial Gallery, of Washington, D. C, according to news despatches, has bought Auguste Renoir's Le Dejeúner des Canotiers á Bougival, long the property of M. Durand Ruel, the dealer-collector, at a price rumored to be the "highest ever paid for a modern painting." Durand Ruel had previously refused $150,000 for it but apparently the overtures of the Washington Gallery were goldenly persuasive...
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Died. George Joseph Demotte, Manhattan and Paris antiquarian, art dealer, near Chaumont-sur-Tharonne, France. Returned from hunting, he was killed by the accidental discharge of a friend's rifle. Last Spring, he brought suit for libel against Sir Joseph Duveen, English art dealer, alleging that the latter stated that an enameled Virgin and Child had not, as Demotte represented, belonged to Queen Isabella the Catholic, of Spain. The case is now pending in the U. S. courts. In the French courts is also pending his suit for breach of confidence against M. Jean Vigoroux, French antiquarian, his former...
...apart and the male inhabitants are blooded stock. Subscribers to this school of thought will thoroughly enjoy The Spoilers. It is concerned with the Alaskan gold rush and the love of a dance-hall girl. There is much hard riding, hard fighting, hard language. A crooked faro dealer and a good job in dam dynamiting add final fury to the flames of melodrama. Milton Sills plays the hero with desperate determination. There is much sincere savagery distributed among the several villains, while Anna Q. Nilsson, with her hardened, twisting mouth, is good as the dance-hall girl...