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Philadelphia, city of feuds in art and music, gave official approval last week to the late Sculptor August Rodin. Mayor Kendrick, after conferring with his subordinates, announced that, yes, the city would accept from Jules E. Mastbaum, theatre owner and philanthropist, a million-dollar collection of Sculptor Rodin's works and a $400,000 museum to keep them in. Architects Paul Cret and Jacques Greber having completed their plans, there was nothing further to hinder the museum's erection at Parkway & 23rd...
Died. Jules E. Mastbaum, 54, cinema theatre magnate, philanthropist, art collector; in Philadelphia, in the arms of his mother; of pneumonia and uremia, following operation. He was brother of Mrs. Ellis A. Gimbel and Mrs. Louis Gimbel of Manhattan (Gimbel's Department Store). Rising from messenger boy he acquired a fortune estimated as between 5,000,000 and $20,000,000; purchased by degrees the largest collection of Rodin statues known (245 pieces), of which he secured 98 in one shipment (TIME...
...perhaps he did not wear any such expression - perhaps it was merely the fancy of the beholders to perceive it, for everyone was thinking that Mr. Mastbaum had reason to be, and even to look, satisfied; he was returning from Paris where he had bought 98 Rodins...
...Imitations, of course," suggested the dubious. "Originals!" thund ered Jules Mastbaum. The purchase, which involved a year's negotiations with the French Ministry of Beaux Arts and with M. Benedite, venerable curator of the Musee Rodin, includes The Thinker (one of the five bronzes cast from the original mold) and reproductions of Adam and L'Ondre from the group at Rodin's grave. Mr. Mastbaum will lend the collection to the SesquiCentennial Exposition at Philadelphia next year...
Beside Mr. Mastbaum's, there are in the U. S. three notable collections of Rodins...