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...title part will be sung by Rose Pauly, famous interpreter of Strauss roles, both in central Europe and at the Metropolitan Opera House in New York. Mino Pauly's "Elektra" has been outstanding in the current New York operatic season...
Wearing an old Etonian tie under his red muffler, Britain's 34-year-old Earl of Kinnoull fretfully paced the deck of the trawler Mino which was anchored olf Southampton last week while customs officials nosed around the ship's hold. His Lordship was all ready to sail to Spain with 100 tons of food and $5,000 to aid Madrid's Radical Government. No hidebound aristocrat is Lord Kinnoull. In 1928 he married the daughter of the late Kate Meyrick, London's "Night Club Queen" who was imprisoned five times for selling unlicensed liquor, bribing...
...Dossena sculptures had been sold as original antiques by the great Renaissance artists: Donatello, Verrocchio, Mino da Fiesole, Niccola Pisano, etc., etc. Newspapers, promptly dubbed him "world's greatest forger," and before the excitement was over the notorious Elia Volpi and several other over-shrewd dealers found themselves fined, exposed, and once more in possession of carloads of spurious sculpture. Sculptor Dossena remained within the law. He never sold his work direct to museum or collector, never, so far as investigators could discover, pretended that they were anything but his own work. Nor did he make money. Dealers paid...
...families, churches and monasteries. Dealers were able to offer rich clients the most extraordinary treasures, objects that had evaded the researches of biographers and art students for centuries. With great clamor the Boston Museum paid $100,000 for a Renaissance tomb identified by Italian experts as the work of Mino da Fiesole. The Metropolitan Museum bought an archaic Greek statue. Miss Helen Frick got an angel by "Simone Martini"-the list is endless...
Other animals have other miseries: Hella, the lioness, whose second prison-born, litter is taken from her when the cubs reach circus age; Mino, the little red fox, who periodically runs, chasing insanity, in narrowing circles around his cement cage. But there are human sufferers as well. A young man who makes friends with the girl who takes care of Peter, the bicycle-riding chimpanzee, is so horrified by the animals' sufferings that he plans to sacrifice himself in atonement. One night he steals into the elephant's cage, deliberately begins to lead away the elephant's pet, a little...