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British painting the greatest since Gainsborough. At least twice, apparently authentic stories of Sir Joseph's approaching peerage were printed in British and U. S. newspapers. Sir Joseph in 1931 purchased an estate in Kent (first house he ever owned) in order to play the part better and he is supposed to have postponed his daughter's wedding so that he might give her away as Lord Duveen. But something always happened. Theories for the delay were found in the fact that Sir Joseph has been sued three times for $500,000 for disparaging the paintings of other...
...years a blank, among the newly adrift Russian princes in Western Europe. Gulled Americans in Paris, Manhattan, Newport, Harvard, Hollywood (twice), St. Paul, Phoenix, variously as the late Tsar's brother, cousin, halfbrother, finally (in Mexico) the Tsar himself. Lived with and peacefully served Artist Rockwell Kent at Ausable Forks, N. Y. As drifts of bad checks massed behind him, he smelled out new green pastures. Exposed, he was always super-Romanoff. Last April he showed away first class on S. S. lie de France, princed the passengers, was caught at last. Detailed at Ellis Island for deportation...
Married, Leonora ("Snorks") Wodehouse, daughter of Pelham Grenville Wodehouse, British humorist (Leave It to Psmith, Very Good, Jeeves and 37 others); and Peter Cazalet, racehorse breeder; in Shipbourne, Kent, England...
...returns. Previously the Associations had gladly complied for the prestige which they felt they derived from the radio announcement of their names. This year, however, UP and INS hearkened to the grumblings of their clients, refused to surrender what their clients, after all, pay for. AP's Manager Kent Cooper was in a different position. He felt bound by a 1925 resolution of his organization which "held that in the public interest it was advisable and wise to permit the broadcast of news . . . Presidential elections specifically." In seven subsequent annual meetings that resolution had been left upon the books...
...Fogg Art Museum is giving an exhibition of wood cuts which will remain for several weeks. The collection includes, from the early German school a rare cut of Hans Holbein, the younger, entitled "The Dance of Death." The modern American school is represented chiefly by the work of Rockwell Kent, who gives a symbolical study of life in his "Over the Ultimate." The collection also includes his vivid illustrations to "Moby Dick...