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...Italy (1913), In Spain & Flanders (1924), In Germany (1927). ¶Mrs. Mary Mooney, 84, mother of California Convict Tom Mooney, called at the White House. Told that the President was too busy to hear her plea for her son's release, she left her appeal in manuscript. Other visitors last week who did see the President: Jay Herod, 10, San Francisco violin prodigy, Alayne Brown, 15, St. Louis sharpshooter. ¶ President Hoover signed a bill which will cause the distribution to the needy of 4,000,000 bu. of Farm Board wheat through the Red Cross. The Red Cross...
Autographs of three Harvard Presidents are included: Edward Everett 1811, Cornelius Conway Felton 1827 and Charles W. Eliot '53. In the book which will be placed in the Treasure Room, there is also an interesting page from the manuscript of John Ruskin' "The Queen...
...Vienna; but now as of old, when friends gather and men make merry, there is dancing and singing to Schubert's song. Now a new Schubert sits at the open casement. It is Toni Hofer, writing the last measures of an operetta. On the piano, lilting melodies lie in manuscript, but the one crowning air will not come. The play is dead without a dance, a Viennese walse to give it soul...
...Prochnik, last week presented President Hoover with an equestrian statuet of Washington made of Austrian china. The Smithsonian Institution was preparing an exhibit of Washingtoniana. Rehearsals for Wake field, a folk masque by Percy MacKaye to be presented at Constitution Hall Feb. 21, were under way. The manuscript of one of Washington's Thanksgiving proclamations was displayed in the Library of Congress...
Rarer, though a shade less precious than the Tikytt psalter, were the Blickling Homilies, only Anglo-Saxon manuscript in the U. S., a volume of 149 vellum pages written by two scribes about 971. For it Barnet J. Beyer, Manhattan bookdealer, paid $55,000. For $45,000 he also got what was described as "the most important early illustrated book ever sold at auction"-Boccaccio's De La Ruine des Nobles hommes et femmes. Translated by Pierre Faivre, it was the first dated book (1476) with copperplate illustrations. Disposal of the Boccaccio was complicated by the competition...