Word: fricks
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Hardly had the dust settled from the Manhattan opening of the new Frick Art Reference Library fortnight ago (TIME, Jan. 21) than the donor found herself last week deeply involved in hot and noisy litigation. James Howard Bridge, a white-haired Briton of 77, was suing Miss Helen Clay Frick for slander & libel, asking $250,000 damages. In White Plains, N. Y. a Supreme Court jury sat down to hear the evidence. Its nub was that Defendant Frick had ruined Plaintiff Bridge's career as an art expert by writing in 1931 that he had never been curator...
James Howard Bridge arrived in the U. S. in 1884, with good references. He had been private secretary to the late great Herbert Spencer. He got himself a job as "literary assistant" to Andrew Carnegie. Carnegie passed his "literary assistant" on to his onetime business partner, Henry Clay Frick, and James Howard Bridge acted as a Frick secretary for two years. In 1914 he was put in charge of the Frick pictures, exactly in what capacity being one of the turning points of last week's trial. In November 1928, nine years after Mr. Frick's death...
...Bridge admitted on the stand last week that he had received since that time more than $50,000 from Miss Frick, but maintained that this money was due him for a block of Cerro de Pasco copper stock held in his name by the elder Frick. Never once did Defendant Frick appear in court. Newshawks were not surprised, for no rich woman has ever fought publicity so long or so successfully. Blonde, thin, freckled and 44, Helen Clay Frick inherited her father's executive ability...
...house near his summer place at Prides Crossing, Mass., as a vacation home for Boston factory girls, among whom Daughter Helen organized clubs known as The True Blue Girls. During and after the War she took boatloads of supplies and clothing to France. Lately she has made the Frick Art Library and the Frick Museum her career. Because she felt that the elderly Bridge, whom she described as "somebody hired to show people through the galleries," was not qualified to be curator of the Frick collection as a public museum, she fired him, felt that she had done her duty...
Supplying Mr. Cortissoz' wants was child's play for Librarian Ethelwyn Manning and her 30 assistants. She is prouder of the library's special services. The library has the finest collection of photographs of illuminated manuscripts in the world. Frick photographers have toured the Pyrenees taking pictures of Romanesque and Gothic paintings made long before Giotto was born. Over 1,000 portraits and miniatures have been photographed in private homes in Virginia, South Carolina, Kentucky, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Boston, Nantucket, Pittsburgh and Bermuda. The library is not too busy to recommend reading lists for ladies' clubs...