Word: elkinses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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And so, after a lecture, to Widener, where in the theatre collection is an exhibition of playbills and souvenirs of Gilbert & Sullivan operas so splendid and diverse as to dazzle even a Saturday morning's eye. Today this noble building seems to be pouring forth more treasures than can be...
As a reader of TIME for several years, I searched through your Oct. 12 issue for some report of President Roosevelt's visit to Elkins, W. Va., to speak and attend the Mountain State Forest Festival. He went from there to speak in Pittsburgh. I searched in vain, for...
Died, Mrs. Katherine Elkins Hitt, 50, racehorse owner, much-publicized daughter of West Virginia's late Senator Stephen Benton Elkins; in Manhattan. Long courted by the late Duke of Abruzzi, cousin of Italy's King Vittorio Emanuele III, she reputedly passed him up when he failed to get...
Most of the volumes in the exhibit are from the collection of Mrs. Flora V. Livingston, Curator of the Harry Elkins Widener Memorial Room and a personal friend of Mr. Kipling.
In order most to enjoy the collection it is necessary to know something about Harry Elkins Widener, the man responsible for it all. From schooldays a great collector of rare editions of all kinds, Widener, when here, began to interest himself in Robert Louis Stevenson. After having built up a...