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...Moliere's best and most popular plays. It is full of the lively and sparkling humor which always accompanies his stinging satires. To achieve the full realization of this quality on the stage without seriously sacrificing an appearance of reality, especial credit is due to R. D. Merion for his absolutely superb acting in bringing out the full possibilities of the character of Sganarells, the fake doctor. Even the most sedate Cambridge matrons were set to laughing by his extremely amusing actions and his well calculated speech. As Martine, the querulous and revengeful wife of Sganarelle, Miss Mary Loring gave...
Anne Townsend of Merion, Pa., has been on every All-American field hockey team since the first (1923). She has been president of the U. S. Field Hockey Association from 1927 to this year, when she refused the nomination. Next summer she will take the All-American of 1932 on a tour of Europe. On the tour in 1923, the U. S. team lost all its games in England, played France to a 4-to-4 tie. During last week's play, the All-American team was robbed of money & jewelry, taken from their clothes in Rosemary Hall...
...exhibition at Philadelphia's swank Mellon Galleries. The exhibition opened with an announcement for which most modern artists would give four sound teeth: four of the Pinto Brothers' paintings have been sold to Dr. Albert C. Barnes, the Argyrol tycoon with the big modern art museum in Merion. Pa. Even better, the almost legendary Dr. Barnes has written the foreword to the Pintos' catalog, an honor he has conferred only once before and then upon Giorgio de Chirico. His Pinto purchases were Salvatore's "Beach Group" and "Beach Scene"; Angelo's "Landscape with Crucifix"; Biagio...
...Philadelphia suburb of Merion he has built (behind a loft. spite fence) a French Renaissance chateau that contains the greatest collection of modern art in the U. S., one of the greatest in the world. Dr. Barnes is no rich dunce with a fondness for pretty pictures. To occupy the spare time of his little factory staff he gave a course of lectures, assisted by his friend, Philosopher John Dewey. Since Artist William Glackens first got him interested in painting, he has traveled widely, read voraciously. His book The Art in Painting is a standard work on modern art. Dealers...