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...high-school teacher named Elmer Halseth. In 1939, Halseth begged part of a touring exhibit to show to his classes. The youngsters agreed with Halseth that the high school should own one of the paintings. They collected $50 in nickels and dimes for Shack Alley by Chicago's Henrietta Wood...
Died. Annie Henrietta Yule (Lady Yule), 75, one of the world's richest widows, whose husband (and cousin) Sir David ("Scottish King of the Indian Jute Trade") left her some $100 million when he died in 1928; in St. Albans, England. She preferred animals to people, kept a racing stable and a menagerie, bought broken-down draft horses and put them to pasture on her estate...
...taken up by Charles I (who was something of a connoisseur), knighted, and persuaded to stay. The Crown gave him a summer residence at Eltham Palace and he spent his winters in Blackfriars. He painted 36 known portraits of the king, 25 of Queen Henrietta Maria. The British nobility followed the king to Van Dyck's studio, and suiting his art to his sitters, he forsook the rich palette of his Italian period to paint them in proud, pale, silver-grey tones...
...South Kensington's Onslow Court Hotel. There, in a silence broken only by the tinkle of chinaware, an occasional polite belch or a muffled platitude, retired colonels and well-to-do widows dine in respectable isolation without recourse to spirits. One of these was stately Mrs. Olive Henrietta Roberts Durand-Deacon, a widow of 69. She had few close friends at the hotel, but over a period of three years had struck up an acquaintance with a youngish (39) gentleman named John George Haigh, who was, he said, an inventor...
...heroine was praised by Housemother Henrietta Sebring in a speech at dinner last night...