Word: dealers
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Buffalo this week held its first air show. The event had significance less for number of planes exhibited (50) and the amounts of planes sold and dealer contracts closed than for two other reasons...
...Town's Woman. There is a real horse-race on the treadmill which once played so important a part in Ben Hur; there is an aviator for women who are still pining over Col. Lindbergh; there is a mean old bond-dealer, and a self-sacrificing heroine, and a waitress in trouble; there is enough plot for six plays; there are two intermissions and, at long last, a final curtain. But it all looks like another misfortune for the new Craig Theatre...
...Joseph Duveen, international art tycoon, has emerged unscathed if not triumphant from three $500,000 libel suits. In 1915 Art Dealer Edgar Gorer failed to prove that Sir Joseph's opinionizing had spoiled the sale of a Kang Hsi vase to the late, great collector Henry Clay Frick. In 1921 Mrs. Harry Hahn of Kansas City brought a suit which only last fortnight came to a bootless halt (TIME, Feb. 18 et seq.). In 1923 suit was brought by the late Art Dealer George Joseph Demotte of Manhattan, which ceased when Mr. Demotte was accidentally shot to death while...
...Dealer Demotte owned a statuette of the Virgin and Child which he called a 13th century Limoges enamel. He was fond of describing how Queen Isabella of Spain, one of its owners, had caused a niche to be cut under the pommel of her saddle to contain the statuette. With this tiny shrine she could jaunt while worshiping, or worship while jaunting...
Last week Lucien Demotte, son of the late dealer, announced that other experts had called the enamel statuette genuine, and that the Dreicer estate had accordingly paid in full a sum of approximately...