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...wearing a black silk hat, a cutaway and a gardenia in his buttonhole, put down his field glasses and a man at the side of the track put up the names of the horses who had finished first, second and third in the British Derby at Epsom Downs-Cameronian, Orpen, Sandwich. Immediately there began the amazing procedure of publicizing the real winners of the Derby, which has for years been recognized as merely a spectacular way of deciding the greatest racehorse lotteries in the world. An extraordinary crew, most of them convinced that their success was in some measure...
...doors were opened last week Artist Dod Proctor discovered that one of his wife's still-lifes had been hung upside down. But the most newsworthy picture that actually appeared on the R. A.'s walls was a biblical scene by small jockey-like Sir William ("Billy Orps") Orpen. Depicting the entry into Jerusalem, it was entitled by the artist and most morning papers "Christ Riding on the Ass." In the evening papers, in the official catalog it appeared as "Palm Sunday A. D. 33." It received the sort of press notice generally reserved for the opera of Jacob Epstein...
...signers from England include Edmund Blunden, author of "Undertones of War"; Siegfried Sassoon, who wrote "Memoirs of an Infantry Officer"; Henry W. Nevinson, veteran war correspondent; H. M. Tomlinson, who was a war correspondent and also wrote "All Our Yesterdays." Among other signatories are H. G. Wells, Sir William Orpen. Bertrand Russell, Aldous Huxley, Leonard Woolf, G. D. H. Cole and the Bishop of Birmingham. New York Times
Enough Wheat. Head of B. A. A. S. for 1930 was dignified Frederick Orpen Bower, 74, Regius professor of botany in the University of Glasgow. Contrary to the custom of B. A. A. S. presidents whose addresses usually last long enough to sum up the entire scientific field, Professor Bower limited his inaugural address to a review of the last 30 years' work in botany. Sir William Crookes (radiometer, Crookes' tube) told a meeting of the British Scientific Association in 1898 that, taking into consideration acre yield and population growth, wheat would be scarce enough in 30 years...
Died. Patrick Joseph Tuohy, 36, able one-armed painter of the Irish artistic revolution, for five years a student under Sir William Orpen who called him "the best painter Ireland has produced in generations"; by his own hand, in Manhattan, where he had lived for four years...