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Whistler's etching, The Doorway, sold...
With "Three Live Ghosts" this week, the St. James renews its tradition of bringing popular successes to Boston. Here is a bubbling comedy that belies from start to finish the "Peace, Perfect Peace" of the "motto" conspicuous over Mrs. Gubbins' humble doorway. Spirits, real and figurative, flit in and out; the souls of the departed are invoked as the curtain rises, and they answer the call in full person, to the discomfiture of the mediums and the three-act merriment of the audience. The comic situation is quickly and simply woven, exposition coming in each case just enough ahead...
...large and enthusiastic audience attended the address made by Viscount Bryce last night in the Living Room of the Union. All the available floor space was taken up; the balconies and windows were packed; and lines extended from each doorway far into the hall and up the staircase...
...fine impressions of the Black Lion Wharf, the Lime Burners, The Pool and Little Pool. The portrait of Bocquet, "The Fiddler", bears in Whistler's handwriting, the words "Fine proof". There are also several etchings of a later period, showing his later style, from the Venice subjects--as "The Doorway", "Rialto", and "Furnace Nocturne". The "Nocturne Palaces" is one of Whistler's famous Nocturnes and shows the effect which he produces in the wiping of the plate...
...Lenine escorted him to the cub and kindly consented to pay for the cab and asked him to give his have to Mr. Winston Churchill. And so our hero drove away from the munificent place of the Kremlin, waving his hand to Mr. Lenine, who stood in the doorway smiling a gracious, czardonic smile. New York Evening Post...