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...shek announced that one of his major foes, famed Christian Marshal Feng Yu-hsiang, had offered to sell out and change sides for $3,000,000 Chinese silver dollars or $810,000 U. S. gold dollars. This may or may not have been true but it was significant. It lent special and peculiar point to the opening at Shanghai last week of "the greatest mint in the world...
Among the several interesting loan exhibitions shown at the Fogg Museum during the summer is a collection of coins lent by L. C. Briggs '31. The collection is composed of English coins before 1272, coins which influence this series or were contemporary with it, and also miscellaneous coins of historical interest...
...train the association's ponies. Carleton Burke, California poloist, was going to attend to this, but found he could not go east until August. This is the first year that the U. S. Polo Association has owned a decent stable. In past years some of the ponies were lent to the Association after the team was picked, but this year the Association needed its own ponies because it is not going to pick the international team until the night before the first match...
Other important paintings are an early Turner, "Seapiece," lent by the Malden Public Library; the "Grand Landscape" of Gainsborough; John Crome's "The Mill," the only representative of this artist on display: a small canvas by John Sell Cotman, "Chateau in Normandy": and some water colors by John Ruskin, Thomas Girtin and William Blake. It is interesting to note that group of one Turner and two Raeburns are hung in the identical place in which they were when the museum opened...
...while spending it on Broadway met a cinema producer who gave him a $20 job in his cutting room. He became cutting room editor, then wrote some scenarios, got into directing. When he found that Warner Bros, who paid him $400 a week, were getting $1,000 when they lent him to other companies, he quit work and went through bankruptcy to settle the company's suit for $200,000 damages. Directing All Quiet on the Western Front he was knocked unconscious by a piece of plaster blown from a dynamited church. He is fat, witty, a brilliant organizer...