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Since then Marlborough House, now enlarged to contain over 100 rooms, has been frequently occupied by royalty. Before he was called to the throne of Belgium, Leopold I rented it from the Crown for ?3,000 a year. It was there, of course, that the present King was born. There, in the great 'Treasure Room," the fabulous riches presented to King Edward on his tour of India are still preserved in seclusion. At present the aged Miss Knollys, lifelong companion of Alexandra, is in charge of Marlborough House, pending its disposition to the Prince of Wales...
...Philadelphia Orchestra gave its first public concert. With it appeared as soloist Ossip Gabrilowitsch, brilliant young Russian pianist, then making his first U.S. tour. Last week the same orchestra, the same soloist were heard again in Manhattan. Because he felt himself a comparative newcomer, Leopold Stokowski handed his stick to Concertmaster Thaddeus Rich who, a better conductor than most concertmasters, led the first number. Then Mr. Gabrilowitsch, a more mature and no less brilliant artist than he was 25 years ago, sonorously assisted in interpreting the rugged, lordly and immortal Tschaikowsky's B-flat Minor Concerto...
...Albin Polasek, sculptor, took the Logan medal and $1,500 for his statue Unfettered quite a different piece of work from his statue of "A Fat Lady Hailing a Bus" butt of wits and columnists, which stands outside the museum and was made to order of a park board. Leopold Seyfert with a self portrait took another medal and $1,000. There were two posthumous Sargents, a goodly number of paintings from the artist colony at Taos, N. M. "A very good exhibit," said critics, "but nothing marvelous...
Born. To Mrs. Robert Littell of New York (the onetime Anita Damrosch, daughter of Walter) a son, one of whose grandfathers was James G. Blaine, famed Secretary of State, and two of whose great-grandfathers were Eliakim Littell, founder of The Living Age, and Dr. Leopold Damrosch, founder of the Oratorio Society and introducer of German opera at the Metropolitan Opera House; at Bar Harbor...
...tail coat-a gentleman whose pointed head, lean yellow face and sardonic lip bristle gave him a Mephistophelian air, but whose words were admonitory, noble, penetrating. He-Chief Justice Carrington T. Marshall of the Ohio Supreme court-was flaying the professional ethics of Clarence D arrow, famed champion of Leopold, Loeb and the Ape. Said he, referring to the Scopes trial (TIME, July...