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...spite of the strained feeling between the rivals, a remarkable quality of sportsmanship was evinced by the Standishites. When the ranks of the Gorites became thinned by desertion, their rivals actually lent two fielders so that the game could be finished...
...continue to produce it until Friday night. The play was supposed to be amusing and it was amusing. As the only complex character in the play Miss Lois Hall was successful in a manner of speaking. She delivered her lines with feeling, but the continuous tenseness of her voice lent an unsought atmosphere to certain moments in the first and second acts...
Last July the British cruiser Suffolk was warped to a berth in Portsmouth harbor. While nervous Chinese gentlemen hovered anxiously around, a gang of Royal Marines slowly carried ashore 93 brass-trimmed steel trunks. In those trunks were 21,000 separate pieces of imperial Manchu treasure which, lent by the Nanking Government, were leaving China for the first time in history. To help assemble them, the great Orientalist and retired importer George Eumorfopoulos sold his own collection and hurried to the East (TIME, Jan. 28). All 21.000 were unpacked and spread out last week in the Royal Academy...
...sponsored the 1932 League of Nations report condemning the Japanese rape of Manchuria (TIME, Oct. 10, 1932). Though a whole commission went to Japan seeking Chinese treasures for the London show, Japan at first churlishly refused to send a single pot. Well satisfied, the Chinese Government not only lent the Manchu treasures but sent a corps of light-fingered experts to pack and unpack them, to set them up in Burlington House against roll upon roll of special canvas backgrounds. King George and Queen Mary did not attend last week's special preview but onetime Queen Victoria of Spain...
...Houdon's marble bust of Voltaire, lent by the Comedie Franchise. ¶Watteau's Jupiter and Antiopc, from the Louvre. ¶ Mme Vigee Lebrun's portrait of Marie Antoinette, lent by Edward J. Berwind. Every number in the list shone with that French gaiety which 20th Century Parisians have lost. Not even in the court portraits was there a trace of the stolid respectability of a Gainsborough or a Reynolds. In not one of the French masters was there a trace of the social responsibility of a Hogarth...