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What the Metropolitan got last week for its money was Watteau's excellent Le Mezzetin, whose full title is Le Mezzetin jouant de la Guitare. In 1932 Soviet Russia needed ready cash, dug Le Mezzetin out of Leningrad's Hermitage Museum, sold it to Manhattan's Wildenstein Galleries. Wildenstein lent it last summer to Chicago's Century of Progress art show. It will be shown at the Metropolitan in January...
Harvard Square will be treated to a delightfully archaic sight this afternoon, when at two o'clock precisely, especially privileged members of the Harvard Dramatic Club will climb aboard a chariot lent them by the Classical Club, and gallop off for the Repertory Theatre...
...make sure of a happy honeymoon at vast, forbidding Himly Hall (lent by the Earl of Dudley) Modern Bride Marina ordered sent out from London for projection at the Hall, a selection of lively films, including Mickey Mouse...
...exhibition were 31 canvases by Jean-Baptiste Camille Corot. Carefully selected, the pictures clearly revealed the charm which has made Corot a necessity in every big museum in the world, has caused him to be included in most Grade A private collections. Surprisingly realistic were his Femme Accoudee (lent by Horace Havermeyer), his peasant woman taking care of her child on the seashore (from the Pennsylvania Museum of Art). Critics were amused by his able portrait of his sister who looked like ZaSu Pitts...
...large audience including Chief Justice Hughes sat in the inner court of the new $11,000,000 Department of Justice building and waited 15 minutes until President Roosevelt and Postmaster General Farley drove up. Then the building was dedicated. The President lent an attentive ear while Attorney General Cummings declared...