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...well. Next week the Chicago Art Institute will stage a show unrivaled among the new year's exhibitions for size and sophistication: 120 pictures by three extraordinary American expatriates-John Singer Sargent, Mary Cassatt and James McNeill Whistler. All three made their fame in the Victorian and Edwardian eras; after their deaths, the reputations of all three declined. Perhaps because they were restless folk, who elected to live abroad, none of the three ever quite matched the greatness of their deep-rooted contemporaries, Winslow Homer and Thomas Eakins. But Chicago's show should do much to restore them...
...encouraged them to establish one. In 1840 a delegation of Jesuit priests, cautiously clad in secular clothes with top hats, paid ?5,800 for the Farm Street leasehold in what was then a stifling congestion of stables and cab-choked cobble streets. But as Mayfair spread out and the Edwardian upper crust turned the stables into mews flats, Farm Street became top-drawer. The best known Farm Street figure of this elegant era was handsome, well-born Father Bernard Vaughan, whose sermons packed such dramatic punch that professional actors came to church for pointers...
Remembering Freddie. In exile in London. Mutesa II last week proved almost as popular in Britain as he became overnight in his own country. Englishmen remembered him from his Cambridge days when his tall, dandified figure, complete with tightly furled umbrella and dudish Edwardian jacket, was a familiar sight, in Mayfairs poshest bars. His friends called him Freddie, and last week the name caught on all over Britain. Amply subsidized by the British government, Freddie took a suite in the Savoy, bought a hat and slipped out to see his old friends...
...Jones discovered Freud's writings as a brilliant young practitioner in the safe sun of the Edwardian era. He reacted as though he had found the elixir of life. He mastered German to extract the full flavor of every word, and introduced psychoanalysis to a shocked England. Orthodox physicians (in the Freudian phrase) ventilated their aggressions on the pioneer analysts...
...other words, analysts can get as jittery as anyone else, with the possible exception of sturdy little Dr. Jones, who may draw his strength from Freud's teachings or from his Socratic ring-or from his Edwardian past...