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...somewhat unusual in emphasizing portraiture. The public has become accustomed to associating the name of Degas always with ballet dancers, but here this subject occurs only in the brilliant pastel of the two girls behind the scenes, and in the small pencil drawing on pink paper. The two mono-types, which offer an interesting study of an unusual technique, represent the singers in Paris cafes...
...0ther U. S. composers whose works have been produced at the Metropolitan: Frederick Shepherd Converse, the late Professor Horatio William Parker, of Yale (his Mono, was awarded a $10,000 prize), Walter Damrosch (to whom Peter Ibbetson is dedicated), Victor Herbert Reginald de Koven, Henry Franklin Belknap Gilbert, Charles Wakefield Cadman, John Adam Hugo, Joseph Carl Breil, Henry Kimball Hadley, John Alden Carpenter. Composer Carpenter's Skyscrapers, a ballet, and Taylor's The King's Henchman survived longer than the dreary ten which preceded them...
...their planes. In Persia he is intimate with the Shah, risks his life almost daily photographing mosques and sacred tombs.* Last April Archeologist Pope decided that what the U. S. needed was an American Institute for Persian Art & Archeology, to do learned digging in Per sia, provide scholarships, publish mono graphs. In a few weeks he had dazzled such tycoons and pundits as Mortimer Leo Schiff, Professor Arthur Kingsley, Dr. William R. Valentiner, Percy R. Pyne Jr., Frank Crowninshield, George Dwight Pratt, into accepting posts on the board of directors. Then he left for London with the Institute half organized...
...formed a new $1,000,000 Grover Loening Co. for pure aero-dynamic research. Mr. Loening is president and chief engineer of his new concern. He can spend its money on research as he sees, fit. He intends specifically to continue work on his small mono-wheel amphibian and in general to make planes faster, lighter, easier to learn to fly in. He admitted that he might attempt the design of a Schneider Cup racer. He said he would accept research work for any firm engaged in air craft manufacture. With his strong governmental connections, he hoped for contracts from...
...company's stock was multi plied 15 times. That was only the begin ning of a career of reorganizations and purchases. Today George K. Morrow. 55, keen-eyed, grey, sturdy, has a home on Long Island, golfs week-endly at the Pomonok Country Club (Flushing), owns the Mono, yacht of the late Marcus Loew...