Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...London editors refer to Foreign Secretary Austen Chamberlain as "Monsieur...
...Creaking Chair has an unusual history. It was written by an American, Allene Tupper Wilkes, and first produced in London. That stately metropolis promptly seized upon it and paid thousands of pounds for many months for the privilege of tingling to its grisly thrills. Then it was produced in Boston by a stock company, and so delighted that only slightly less stately community that it ran for six weeks against all the policies of the stock troupe. With these glistening references it comes to Manhattan and turns out to be a very ordinary mystery play with a mixture of burlesque...
Reginald Mason, E. E. Clive (from the Boston Stock Company), Eleanor Griffith and others spoke their pieces capably enough. In fact everything was all right except the play. Even that seemed to serve in England. But, unfortunately for those concerned, Manhattan is not London. Probably Boston was only fooling...
...Providence, R. I., last week Brown University conferred upon Serge Koussevitzky, conductor of the Boston Symphony Orchestra, the honorary degree of Doctor of Music. Said President William H. P. Faunce: "He is a distinguished virtuoso and interpreter of the music of all peoples; leader of concerts in London, Madrid, Barcelona and Warsaw, who has crossed the seas to convey to prosaic America some of his own insight into the arts in the universal language of music." Conductor Koussevitzky speaks little English, could think of no fitting reply, instead lifted his bass violin, played eloquently Handel's Largo, the Andante from...
Porcelain. A Chinese vase in green, yellow, and aubergine (1665) to Frank Partridge of London for $3,100, the highest price paid for anything in the porcelain collection. B. N. Needham, Manhattan collector, paid $2,000 for a Chamberlain Worcester dessert service of 45 pieces. Each plate is painted with a scene from one of Shakespeare's plays, and has on its back (in case any inquisitive guest should turn it over) an appropriate quotation from the bard...