Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Pelican. From London a success of last season necessarily attracted attention since it came on the heels of The Vortex, of similar history, if for no other reason than that. Moreover Margaret Lawrence and that extraordinarily fine English actor, Fred Kerr, were playing the parts. Therefore everybody went in high expectancy? was pretty sadly disappointed...
Lord Leverhulme (who won his elevation by the able manufacture of a red soap) recently died (TIME, May 18, BUSINESS) and all his famous pictures were locked up in the dusk of a London house to to await disposal. English collectors fingured their cheque books. Mitchell Kennerley, Director of the Anderson Galleries, Manhattan, sailed for London...
Lord Leverhulme's collection gone, taken away! It was a slur upon London as an Art capital, a slur upon England herself, for was not a nation's Art its chief strength and treasure? A steam of tears rose from a dozen editorial pages. With the lamentable psychology of one who does not count his chickens until they have been run over, the press pointed out that Leverhulme's collection included two paintings by Rembrandt, several by Frans Hals, Gainsborough's portrait of Squire Nuttall, Reynolds' "Countess of Thanet" and "Venus," Sir Martin Shee...
...Daily News outlined what has been called the Mercantile Theory of Art: "In any intelligent scale of values, riches rank very low. Athens ... a greater figure in the history of mankind than Chicago or Manhattan . . . little Bethlehem, with no wealth at all, worth more than London...
...years ago (in 1875), Cardinal Manning journeyed down into the East End of London and opened a new Church and it was known as the Church of St. Boniface. For 50 years the East Enders have been contributing their pennies and their farthings and now at last St. Boniface's is free from debt and ready to be consecrated as the House of the Lord, It seemed only logical that since St. Boniface was the Apostle of Germany, a German prelate should be chosen for its consecration. But the question arose: What German, prelate or no prelate, would...