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...hard-boiled Dr. Albert C. Barnes of Merion, Pa. sold his Argyrol rights to Zonite Products Corp., pocketed his millions and concentrated, in his French Renaissance chateau behind a loft. fence, upon the finest collection of modern art in the U. S. He never lends pictures for outside exhibition, sometimes handpicks a few visitors to look at them. His guards manhandle enterprising reporters. Occasionally he buys a painting by an unknown painter. The canvas disappears behind Dr. Barnes's fence, but the painter is made. As a judge of art, Dr. Barnes is brusque but no booby...
...Matisse and Dr. Barnes agreed. Then Matisse, no master of space problems, discovered that his mural was three feet short. On a new canvas he painted it over again the full 45 ft. long. The short one he kept. And last month Matisse went straight from Nice to Merion chateau without stopping to show the final mural to anybody. No one explained why the exhibition had been canceled...
...nearly two weeks Matisse stayed in Merion with Dr. Barnes, helped fit his mural to the wall over the three windows that opened on new, green spring in Merion. He admired the pictures by modern Europeans on Dr. Barnes's walls. said nothing of the few U. S. pictures. Last week he went to visit his son Pierre who runs a Manhattan art gallery. Wagging his white British beard, staring out of spectacled grey eyes, he told reporters who wanted his reaction to the Rockefeller-Rivera fight (TIME, May 22), "Art is above politics. . . . No one need look...
...round of eight at the Merion (Pa.) Cricket Club last week, four of the seven members of the British team were still in the draw. Next day, the only American left was Ruth Hall of Merion, runner-up for the title last year, winner in 1931. sister of J. Gilbert Hall, onetime 13th ranking U. S. lawn tennis player. Against Susan Noel, 20-year-old British champion who learned squash racquets from her father when she was so young she does not remember it. Miss Hall began with the fatal mistake of trying to outdrive her opponent. After losing...
...Josef Hofmann was so busy being a musical prodigy that he had little time for mechanical tinkering. Now, when his duties as iirector of the Curtis Institute of Music give lim time, he likes nothing better than to work in the laboratory of his Merion, Pa., home. By himself he has built three motor cars, three motor boats which he keeps at his summer lome in Camden, Maine. He has invented a combination gas & oil burner, folding skates, a system of pivoted reflections to vary the resonance of a piano, a shock absorber...