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...Pianist Zecchi had previously played privately in Manhattan, publicly in Washington, Tallahassee, Toronto, Guelph, Decatur, Winnipeg...
...Guelph, Ontario, 61 years ago was horn Arthur William Cutten, Chicago's big stock & commodity bull. Notoriously unschooled in taking profits, he has not been very active since the Crash. Last week he made news by heading back toward his native Canada. He moved one branch of his business from Chicago to Winnipeg, from the Board of Trade to the Winnipeg Grain Exchange...
...abdicate from the Duchy of Brunswick in 1918, has long been reputed one of the richest men in Germany, still maintains a sort of royal court in the Austrian province of Styria. Maintaining a private court runs into big money. Last year H. ex-R. H. announced that the Guelph treasure was for sale. The city of Hanover attempted to buy it, was unable to raise the money. The Duke of Brunswick, descendant of the Popes' most zealous defenders, sold the treasure to a group of three dealers: Z. M. Hackenbruch and J. Rosenbaurn of Frankfort; Julius Goldschmidt...
Apart from its great intrinsic value the Guelph treasure fills a great gap in the history of art as shown in U. S. museums. Wise purchases and liberal gifts have made the U. S. comparatively rich in Egyptian, Classical, Gothic, Renaissance and Modern. Of that whole period from the 4th to the 13th Century referred to by Victorian professors as the dark ages, U. S. collections have scarcely anything but a few fragments of Romanesque sculpture, an occasional porphyry column or bit of mosaic. This period is completely covered by the Welfenschatz. Earliest of the pieces is an 8th Century...
...Just to make Guelph-Ghibelline history more complicated, though the Guelphs were defenders of the Papacy, Ghibellines of the Empire, Guelph Otto IV was elected Holy Roman Emperor...