Word: londoners
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...owner immediately sailed for Europe, leaving the business in charge of its old employes. One day in London he ran into Mitchell Kennerley. Kennerley (who had been a publisher) was owner of another big Manhattan auction house-the Anderson Galleries. Bishop asked him whether he would like to sell the Anderson Galleries. Mr. Kennerley agreed (for $500,000) and the two firms were merged in October...
Died. James Francis Harry St. Clair-Erskine, Earl of Rosslyn, 70, gay blade; of shock following a tragic report that his daughter's foot had been amputated by a crocodile;* in London. In 1927 his patrician relatives groaned, unsuccessfully tried to suppress his memoirs, My Gamble With Life (written "solely for money"), telling about his three marriages, two divorces (wife No. 2 recommended him as "an altogether delightful person, but absolutely impossible"); the loss of a $1,500,000 inheritance, mostly by gambling, which fascinated him as a mathematical problem to which he was always finding a new "solution...
Died. Leonard Merrick, 75, novelists' novelist, whose whimsically unhappy stories (When Love Flies Out o' the Window, Cynthia, Conrad in Quest of His Youth) were cold-shouldered by his British reading public, tolerated in the U. S.; in London. He usually wrote about people of his own stamp: sensitive, unsuccessful, unembittered, garret-inhabiting. In 1918, after he had published twelve novels, a dozen top-flight authors-including Barrie, Wells, Chesterton, Howells, Pinero, Hewlett-published an appreciative edition of his work, called public attention...
...London last week was staged what was tantamount to a preview of the Olympic Games to be held in Helsinki next summer. At White City Stadium 95 hand-picked track & field stars representing 16 nations competed in the British A. A. A.'s annual international track meet. Before 60,000 onlookers, the U. S. team of ten won eight of the 14 events, broke two British records (440-yd. hurdles and shot put), piled up 54 points-13 more than Great Britain, 29 more than Germany, 38 more than Italy...
...graduates (Oberlin '45), Bland himself attended Washington's Howard University. Handsome and honey-voiced, he could not stay away from music. Because white men in blackface hogged the field of U. S. minstrel shows, Bland did not get very far in his U. S. minstrel career. In London, however, where he went as end man with Billy Kersands' Minstrel Troupe, he made a big hit, earned $10,000 a year and King Edward VII's (then Prince of Wales) personal bravos. And all the time, without bothering to get them copyrighted, he wrote songs (some...