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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Haakon, Gustaf & Christian. Visitors to Oslo paid up to 500 kroner ($132). each just for a place at a window from which to see the three Kings of Scandinavia-Norway's Haakon VII, Sweden's Gustaf V and Denmark's Christian X-ride in state from the Slot to Vor Frelsers Kirke, with the bridal party...
...sight for the gods which no man paid to see was the royal guest from the Netherlands, the good-hearted but extremely pompous Prince Consort of Queen Wilhelmina. As this personage moved about Oslo, with tinkling spurs, jingling medals and a large clanking sword, it was permissible to exclaim: "There goes His Royal Highness, Prince Hendrik Vladimir Albertus Ernst of Mecklenburg-Schwerin, Prince of the Netherlands, Duke of Mecklenburg, Vice-Admiral of the Fleet, Lieutenant-General of the Netherlandic and Indo-Netherlandic Armies, Chevalier of the Order of the Black Eagle, of the Order of the Seraphihs, of St. Andrew...
Their original intention was merely to use the old playhouse for their own amusement. They gathered together a company best described as semiprofessional and last Labor Day threw the doors open for their first production, a revival of The Barker, a Broadway hit. not caring much whether they even paid expenses. They didn't. Nor did they care. They kept on, producing Mr. Morley's own play, Pleased to Meet You, reviving Broadway and The Old Soak, going into red ink but having a very pleasant time...
...record price for a painting was $750,000, paid by a U. S. syndicate for Raphael's Madonna di Siena...
...late Michael Dreicer, famed Manhattan jeweller. Shortly before his death he arranged to buy it for 350,000 francs. After he died, the bank handling the Dreicer estate engaged Sir Joseph Duveen to pass judgment on the authenticity of the statuette, for which 100,000 francs had already been paid. Sir Joseph called it a modern fake, and the bank promptly refused further payments. Mr. Demotte brought suit. Sir Joseph insisted that he had libeled no one, but had merely expressed a solicited opinion. Mr. Demotte's death kept the affair from the courts...