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...installed complete cable and telegraph stations and three translux machines to flash messages of congratulation as they poured in from rulers, statesmen, educators and dignitaries in the four corners of the world. Ready for the diners' inspection were nine of the ten extant oil-paintings (among them an Orpen, a La very, a Salisbury*) of the man they were honoring. Elaborate souvenir programs and menus were printed. Two dollar Wedgwood plates depicting Columbia scenes were to be distributed to each & every guest. New York's Bishop William Thomas Manning would bless their food. President James Rowland Angell of Yale University...
Stars of the opening exhibit were Sir John Lavery and the late Sir William Orpen, two great Irishmen whose memberships in London's Royal Academy have dimmed the fact that they belong also to the Royal Hibernian Academy which, chartered in 1823, now has 24 members and a gallery on Grafton Street, Dublin. Sir John and Sir William were eagerly reclaimed for Ireland last week. One of the three Orpens on view was a severe portrait of Solomon R. Guggenheim. Other paintings on view were a seascape by the late Nathaniel Hone, last survivor of the Barbizon School...
...William Orpen, K. B. E., R. A. was born in Stillorgan, County Dublin, 52 years ago. He was an incredible little man who looked like a Gaelic gnome, used to smoke 70 cigarets a day, eat four meals, sleep twelve hours and walk 15 miles. To an enormous circle of acquaintances he was known quite simply as Billy Orps. His career started in 1890 when he won a L2Q scholarship at the age of 12 and began to study painting at the Dublin Metropolitan School of Art. He went to London and studied at the Slade School when that dusty...
Died. Sir William Orpen, 52, famed Irish-born portrait painter; of heart disease; in London...
...English law was enacted providing that anyone discovering a theatre open on Sunday might, as a "common informer," sue the proprietor, collect informer's money. The law has never been repealed. When a Miss Millie Orpen discovered this state of affairs, she pounced upon the Sunday-showing Capitol Theatre (cinema) in London with a suit. Last week to all cinemen's dismay, a court awarded Miss Orpen $15,000. But the court was dismayed too. It also awarded the Capitol a stay of execution. Planned were appeal and repeal...