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From Roman Catholic Archbishop Maximiliano Crespo of Popayan, Colombia, a Chicago gem syndicate bought for an unrevealed sum the foot-high emerald crown of Our Lady of the Andes, containing 453 jewels seized by Pizarro in the 16th Century from the collection of Atahuallpa, last of the Incas. Exhibited in Manhattan, the crown was appraised at $4,500,000 by its new owners, who have been dickering for it since 1914 when Pope Pius X gave permission for the sale. Colombia will use the proceeds to build a Catholic hospital and orphan asylum at Popayan...
From Burma came a gem-like set, the board being made of minute marquetry squares alternating with carvings in natural wood. The men are of ivory, introducing such unusual figures as tigers, camels, and water buffalo...
...Loew's State this week is a well rounded program featuring a satirical romance of Clarence Buddington Kelland called "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town," with an S.S. Van Dine thriller filling out the bill. In the first, a gem of pure wit in Kelland's best Satevepost style, Mr. Deeds is a country boy from Vermont whose uncle's death leaves him a fortune of twenty millions, complete with town house and a regiment of vassals from a major-domo to a pair of plug-ugly bodyguards. With a bank account that "will do in a pinch," he locks...
...deny that he ever said any such thing but legend is a sturdy oak. Legend also says that in this room Sir Edward Grey worked all one night in 1914 and then at dawn, stepping to the window as London's street lights were being extinguished, cut this gem: "Lights are going out all over Europe. We shall not see them lighted again in our time...
...months ago a Manhattan gem dealer named Harry Winston bought the Jonkers diamond for $730,000, had it insured for $1,000,000 by St. Paul Fire & Marine Insurance Co. He was told that the best way to ship it from London to the U. S. was by registered first class mail. Because it was uncut, Dealer Winston had not a cent of duty to pay when it arrived last week. Total cost to Dealer Winston for getting his huge gewgaw across the Atlantic...