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...Franklin also found time to sit for an astonishing number of portraits, became in his own right a respectable art patron. Last week New York's Metropolitan Museum opened an exhibition, billed as "Benjamin Franklin and His Circle," which included, along with some 350 works of art, such memorabilia as Franklin's coat & breeches, and the great man's Pennsylvania Fire Place...
...line with that specialty Dr. Gushing accumulated memorabilia about the greatest doctors of our time. The items pertaining to his own activities during the War fill nine volumes. They contain day-by-day orders of the French, British and U. S. Armies with which Dr. Gushing successively served from the early spring of 1915 until after the Armistice. They include diaries of his experiences with the Harvard Unit of the American Ambulance at Neuilly, France; with the Base Hospital Unit which he organized in Boston and carried to France; and as "senior consult ant in neurosurgery" for the American Expeditionary...
There is housed the greatest collection of English and American dramatic memorabilia in the world. It is made up of books, letters, magazine and newspaper clippings, manuscripts, photographs, and hundreds of thousands of play bills, covering every conceivable phase of theatrical history from the period of the Restoration to the present time...
...small Asolo, northwest of Venice, townspeople took a day off last week to commemorate the great Italian actress who, dying in Pittsburgh, Pa., was buried in the Asolo graveyard exactly ten years ago. In her honor they dedicated a Duse Square, opened a museum of Duse memorabilia, rang up the first curtain on a Duse theatre...
...Cohens and Kellys, which dealt with the same situation (Irish-Hebrew romance), achieved some box-office attention. Accordingly, last week, Anne Nichols, asking $3,000,000, was in court to sue Universal Pictures Corp. for plagiarism. The trial proceeded in the higgly-piggly fashion of plagiarism suits, with interminable memorabilia, mentions of long-forgotten vaudeville skits and old plays from which The Cohens and Kellys might possibly have been derived. Some Universal adman had written an advertisement in which The Cohens and Kellys had been called "another Abie's Irish Rose." This was discussed. Universal discredited the advertisement...