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Lord Pengo, which S. N. Behrman has modeled on the late Lord Duveen. high-priced art purveyor to U.S. multimillionaires, is, dramatically speaking, a 2½-hour still life. The play has poise, grace, urbanity, but it lacks any inner dynamic of change, conflict or direction...
...Aristocrats. The galleries with the most formidable pedigrees are Duveen, Wildenstein, Knoedler and Paul Rosenberg. Duveen is run by courtly Edward Fowles, 77, who in 1898 noticed a "Boy Wanted" sign in the window of London's Duveen gallery, walked in and was promptly hired by Joseph Duveen himself. In 1939 Fowles took over in Manhattan (the London gallery closed during World War II, the Paris gallery shortly after...
...name of Lord Duveen will always be associated with the names of Mellon and Morgan and Kress, and today it is still true that a Duveen customer should be something more than merely solvent. Prices range from $850 for an illuminated manuscript page from a 15th century book to $500,000 for a Giorgione. But buying an old master is not a prerequisite for enjoying the treasures Lord Duveen stashed away during his incredible career. On a Saturday the gallery is usually jammed with art lovers of every age and income, perhaps dropping in to see a small but appealing...
...uncommon brilliance, it will be superb. Called A Matter of Position, it is vaguely described as a protest against society. The star is her comic partner, Mike Nichols (Oct. 25). S. N. Behrman's Lord Pengo (Nov. 11) is an adaptation of his biography of Art Dealer Joseph Duveen, played by Charles Boyer. Anita Loos (Gentlemen Prefer Blondes} has been tinkling with a French play about the wedding night of Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves. Sidestepping Ladies Prefer Beards, she kept the French title, The King's Mare (January). The Beauty Part, S. J. Perelman...
Bigger than Mellon. Until Kress, Duveen's best customer was Andrew Mellon, who built the National Gallery and gave it his collection. But the collection was not big enough to fill all those marble halls, and the story goes that it was Duveen who planted in Kress's head the idea of the great gallery gift ("You're not going to let Mellon have the whole National Gallery to himself, are you. Mr. Kress?"). Even after the first gift, the Kress Foundation kept buying, in 1951 started adding other institutions to its gift list. To qualify...