Word: georgians
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Elkins Park, an otherwise undistinguished suburb of Philadelphia, Millionaire Joseph Early Widener occupies a stiff Georgian mansion known as Lynnewood Hall. Leathery, spick & span Mr. Widener owns one of the crack racing stables of the world, has Godfathered two swank racetracks-Long Island's Belmont Park and Miami's Hialeah. Less familiar facts about Sportsman Widener are that his Lynnewood Hall contains the choicest private collection of Old Masters in the U. S., that he himself is a cultural servant of Philadelphia. In that capacity last week 64-year-old "Joe" Widener became the centre...
Since Collector Hearst had paid about $125,000 for 32 of his Tudor, Stuart and Early Georgian silver pieces included in this sale, his loss on the whole transaction was estimated to be at least 50%. Nobody knew what the chances were that Mr. Hearst might soon part with his armor, of which his collection is supposedly one of the best in the world...
However, little "personal need" is in evidence at the Ethiopian royal family's seven-acre estate, Fairfield, outside Bath, England. The 14-room Georgian house is jammed with furniture, expensive rugs hurriedly crated out of Ethiopia when the Negus and entourage fled. Behind the high walls the Emperor strides along beside his elderly cousin, Ras Kassa, on their morning walks. His favorite reading is, ironically, "diplomatic history," but most of his serious hours are occupied with the 90,000-word story of his life which he is laboriously turning out in Amharic. The 14-year-old Duke of Harrar...
...Great Garrick (Warner Bros.). As different from the cinema's typical period romance as champagne from sack, Ernest Vajda's figmentary episode in the life of 18th Century Play Actor David Garrick fits the Hollywood gag into the elaborate frame of Georgian humor. Garrick, who played Macbeth in the uniform of a Hanoverian general, might have enjoyed this modernization. He probably would have chuckled at his 1937 impersonator, debonair, English Brian Aherne, stealing scenes from noted Scene-Stealer Edward Everett Horton, but would certainly have advised some rewriting in the interest of pace...
Violins: George S. Dworkin '40, Caroll D. Fearon, Jr. '41, Vlasin Georgian '41, Rowland D. Goodman '39, Herbert Leventhal '40, Edward Petelson 1GB, Louis Schneiderman '40, David R. Simboli '40, Christopher Sotirakis '41, Victor C. Vaughn 3rd '40, Harold White...