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More cats than a critic could shake a pencil at were assembled in the rooms of New York's Maurel Gallery last week in one of the most amusing exhibitions of the season. Persian. Manx, Maltese, Siamese, Angora, tortoise-shell and tabby were all there in wood, pottery, glass, ivory, lead, bronze, marble, in oils, etchings, lithographs, water colors. Enthusiastic cat collectors and neighboring art galleries had loaned over 700 different representations of cats which, according to the Maurel Gallery's foreword, are one of the "eternal themes...
...Siamese, Manx and other pedigreed cats shared prizes all week. Last prize, for the best house cat, went to Nyger. black alley cat whose owner. Miss Doris Bondy, picked it up in a butter & egg store...
...accidents marred the exhibition. A Manx cat whose owner was watching the mice broke away, snarled once at the mice, then dashed off in the opposite direction, startling a turtle, annoying a tiger cub, distracting the attention of an elderly man watching the goldfish. A pelican, taken from its cage to pose for a news-camera, wandered over to the fish exhibition and was diving for one of the lion-headed goldfish when interrupted by a goldfish gillie. One of Exhibitor Donald S. Crowe's bear cubs became ill from an ice cream cone, recovered. A stray...
Manxmen mind their deemsters. Obsolete except on Great Britain's minute Isle of Man, deemsters are medieval judges-of-all-work. They hear actions and criminal cases of every sort, preside over Manx Grand Juries. Proudly last week Manxmen gathered to hear the outlandish swearing-in of Deemster Stevenson More. Deemster More, great and most respected antique of the Manx Bench, has been in retirement for ten years. Emerging last week, he was installed as sole deemster of one-half the Isle of Man. Richly and roundly he swore upon Holy Bible this mouth-filling Manx oath...
...however, in preserving a culture as a museum, piece. Whether a university can affect the habits of a whole people is doubtful; a purely academic and scholastic survival of dialects and traditions is worth little. Few will hope for a university at which eager students learn the intricacies of Manx, Welsh, and Cornish only to pass on the knowledge to other bookish persons...