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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Patriotic Britishers were fearful, last week, lest the famed Portland vase be sold across the sea to some wealthy U. S. art collector. A ten-inch cinerary urn found during the 16th century in an old Roman tomb, long owned by Dukes of Portland, the vase had been announced for auction by the present Sixth Duke, "owing to the exigencies of the present times." For 119 years the Portlands had loaned it to the British Museum. But last week, as it stood on display in Christie's London auction rooms, many a Britisher went for a last look. Everyone supposed...
...Nome-Long Island. Parker Dresser Cramer (who last year attempted a non-stop flight from Rockford, 111., his home town, to Stockholm, Sweden, but was forced down in Greenland) last week took off from Nome, Alaska, in a light Cessna cabin monoplane with a 110 h. p. Warner-Scarab motor. In seven days, with stops along a route which led over Alaska, Canada, Minneapolis, Chicago, Cleveland, he put his ship down on Long Island, N. Y. Flying time...
Back of that is his birth (1818) in Rhenish Prussian Treves, son of a Jewish lawyer, with a long line of learned rabbis behind the lawyer. His years at the universities of Bonn and Berlin were studious, lazy-livered, undramatic. He took his Ph. D., fought no duels. He married the daughter of a high government official. His interest always lay in philosophy and the proletariat. After journalistic ventures in revolutionary twilight zones in Cologne, Paris, Brussels, he fled with his wife, three children and faithful servant "Lenchen," to London, world's warmest haven for refugees...
Critic Edward Alden Jewell of the New York Times: ". . . There are some big bells swinging?bells about the size that Mrs, Leslie Carter used to swing from, so long, so long ago, in Mr. Belasco's Heart of Maryland. . . . One adoring saint on the right is holding a violin . . . another is holding a baby that looks rather like another violin. . . . Although he calls them music and they were designed for the walls of a music room, there is nowhere visible a melodic line. . . . Let us say that it is a fairly good uprooted modern musical chord slurred and fumbled...
Bluest of St. Louis blues are those which in recent years have beset that city's theatre managers. Long have...