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...early Shakespeare editions. His hobby he shared with his wife. Together they amassed 25,000 rare volumes of the works of Elizabethan dramatists. Until his death the precise worth of this collection, now stored in Manhattan, was intentionally kept vague so that his reputation as a collector would not handicap him in making purchases...
...blackamoor;" without the difference in race between Othello and Desdemona the jealousy theme is implausible, the tragedy falls to pieces. Robeson hopes to play Othello in the U. S., thinks he will have the chance next fall. Last month he had another reminder of the U. S. Negroes' handicap in the arts. The Philadelphia Art Alliance rejected, after requesting, a nude statue of Robeson by Sculptor Antonio Salemme (see cut). But the Brooklyn Museum promptly put the piece on public exhibition...
...Laverne Fator, No. 2 U. S. jockey, up on Patroness: a duel with Earl Sande, No. 1 U. S. jockey, on Flying Gal, in the Hanover handicap at Aqueduct, N. Y., by a half-length...
WHEN the rest of the world was going through the throes of Renaissance revivals in architecture America was still building huts along decidedly medieval lines. With a few possible exceptions it is not until the twentieth century that we begin to take the lead, but after all, with a handicap of several hundred years, are we to blame? In the earlier days the crudest substitutes had to serve for what we consider now basic necessities. Is it then any wonder that the artistic efforts of our colonial ancestors in the field of prints were somewhat crude? This primitive handling which...
...plot is one of sophisticated, talkie, married life with the usual innuendoes of too many cocktails before dinner and infidelity. In spite of this apparent handicap, Professor Hays seems to have been cajoled into allowing this picture to be shown in an intelligible state. Rare as the case may be, the result is a sort of problem drama with as little of the usual attending motion picture sugar coating that could be hoped for. Good acting, good directing and a good script by pure geometrical reason go together to make a good picture...