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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...portrait of President Harding is hanging in the White House because the joint congressional committee on the library, acting on recommendation of Charles Moore, chairman of the commission of fine arts, declined to accept either one of two portraits painted for that purpose by E. Hodgson Smart, a distinguished English artist. One of these portraits, described by Gertrude Richardson Brigham in Art and Archeology as "one of the few great portraits of a president," and considered by George B. Christian, the late President's friend and secretary, as the best painted likeness of Mr. Harding has been purchased...
...Writer Shaw's courage (TIME, March 11) said: "The husband of Mrs. Shaw recently sold to an English review a cowardly attack on the physicians of George V. He insinuated that they did not employ a certain mode of treatment 'because the inventor was both an American and a Jew.' His courage was such that his insinuations−although unquestionably directed against the royal physicians−were cast in the form of an allegory and entitled An Improbable Fantasy...
...Miller attended a performance. When the final curtain descended he proceeded not to the street but to the producer's office. It was 3 a.m. when he finally left. It had taken him all that time to negotiate successfully for the U.S. rights. He at once placed an English company in rehearsal, played it a week in a theatre in London, sailed with it for the U.S. The company rehearsed all the way over on the boat. The players reached New York early last week, rested a day, made their debut in Great Neck, L.I., and, the following night...
...English Commonwealth", Professor Whitney, Harvard...
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