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...that it would "attract other gifts from other citizens who may in the future desire to contribute works of art of the highest quality to form a great national collection." First notable collector to live up to Andy Mellon's expectations is 5-10-25? Storeman Samuel Henry Kress, who last week came forward with a donation of 375 paintings and 18 pieces of sculpture valued at about $30,000,000-more than half as costly as that made by the unfinished Gallery's founder...
...accepting what is reputed to be the world's greatest private Italian collection, in the name of the U. S. people, President Roosevelt thanked Storeman Kress for setting an example that is "a decided step in the realization of the true purpose of the National Gallery." No new thing to self-effacing Philanthropist Kress is example setting. For some years now he has been giving and lending noteworthy pieces from his collection to small but deserving museums throughout the nation. San Antonio, Charlotte, N. C., Montgomery, Wichita, Seattle, Memphis, Phoenix, Savannah and Macon have received permanent additions to their...
Still too early to estimate are the results of the boycott of Japan's manufactured products. Last week S. H. Kress & Co., the McCrory Stores, the Woolworth chain, S. S. Kresge Co., H. L. Green Co. announced they would place no new orders for Japanese goods. U. S. imports of Japanese foodstuffs, housewares, toys, cotton goods and other manufactured products valued in 1936 at some $76,700,000- substitutes for which are procurable in domestic and other foreign markets-may be affected if this movement grows...
...Society's first reissue, out this week, is Three Blind Mice played by the Chicago Loopers, a disc full of the sad harmonics and eccentric lyrical twists characteristic of the great Chicago-style. Such masters as Beiderbecke, Frankie Trumbauer (saxophone), Carl Kress (guitar), and Don Murray (clarinet) formed the band. On the two sides of the record, the masters take turns showing what they can do with variations on the common mouse theme...
...brought to the U. S. Lord Duveen quickly wrote off a third of his investment by selling the four Duccios for $1,000,000, two to John D. Rockefeller Jr., one to the Frick Collection, and the fourth to Mr. Mackay who sold it to Mr. Kress for exactly what he paid for it less the Duveen commission. For the same panel six centuries ago the City of Siena paid Artist Duccio two and a half gold florins (about $5.75) in addition to the cost of his pigments and gold leaf...