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Director William Mathewson Milliken of the Cleveland Museum of Art gloated last week in the thought that he had been able to purchase the first original marble by Luca Delia Robbia ever to enter this country...
...period no U. S. tourist returned from Italy without a copy of one of the blue and white Delia Robbia bambini which decorate the façade of the Florentine Foundling Hospital. Their designer was not Cleveland's Luca Delia Robbia (1400-82), but his prolific nephew, Andrea. Luca, however, perfected the enamel-coated terra cotta ware of which they are made. A suave sculptor, he lacked the virility of his great contemporaries (Verrocchio, Donatello) but had an able talent, designed a number of pieces beloved by romantics. His greatest was the series of singing angels and dancing boys...
...turn the Dreyfus collection went up for auction in Paris. It was bought in its entirety by Sir Joseph Duveen. The Cleveland Museum, which had already picked several choice morsels at the dispersal of the Guelph Treasure, sent emissaries to Sir Joseph. They came back with the Delia Robbia plaque which shows the head of a tousled-haired young boy, mouth open as in adenoids. He is supposed to be singing...
Italo-Americano (founded in 1880, circulation: 100,000), biggest in the land. The year after he purchased Bollettino Delia Sera (circulation: 35,000). Last week he acquired another one - Carrier e d 'America (circulation: 60,000). Corriere and II Progresso have Sunday editions. Still in dependent is // Nuovo Mundo, Labor and anti-Fascist organ (circulation: 32,000). Publisher Pope's reasons for his purchases: ''To hold together the Italian colony in the United States. ... To prevent out side interests getting hold of these mediums . . . possibly to cause dissension later." With his near-monopoly, Generoso Pope, sandman...
...Married. Delia Mackin, Baltimore graduate nurse, niece of Archbishop Michael Joseph Curley of Baltimore; and Michael J. Robinson, of Manhattan, onetime officer in the Irish Free State army; in Baltimore. The Archbishop, who, like the bride, was born in extreme poverty on Golden Island, Athlone. Ireland, officiated at the high nuptial mass in Baltimore Cathedral...