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...have strained better-balanced characters than his. Taking a broad view of the mental and moral infirmities that outraged the Victorians, Authors Sitwell and Barton discover that George possessed one distinction to which Thackeray attached little importance. He was one of the few English kings who was also a patron of the arts. Gay and entertaining, with considerable taste in painting and architecture, he was principally responsible for the creation of Brighton as a superb pleasure resort...
...monarchs was everywhere being curbed, and did not live long enough to experience regrets for their cost. Although Sitwell and Barton write long and authoritatively on the beauties of the romantic architecture he sponsored, a taint of snobbishness and affectation is discernible in their accounts. Despite Brighton and its patron's love of art, Thackeray was probably more nearly right about George IV than Osbert Sitwell and Margaret Barton...
...James Buchanan Brady grew up near New York's Bowery to become the most arresting figure in the bizarre night life of Broadway at the turn of the century. The picture, handsomely produced by Edmund Grainger, sketches his boyhood and then concentrates on his extraordinary career as gourmet, patron of the stage, stockmarket impresario and teetotaler that followed his overnight switch from New York Central "baggage smasher" to major-league railroad supply salesman. Since Brady's life is a legend, Playwright Preston Sturges, who did the screen play from Parker Morell's biography, wisely included apocryphal...
...years ago when Stutz was short of cash it approached its traditional patron by way of his brother, Edward Schwab, who now manages most of the old steelmaster's business affairs. Brother Edward said he had no funds available but if a buyer could be found for the Schwab Stutz holdings, he would loan the proceeds to the company. Forthwith the Stutz bankers produced one Samuel Genis, who took an option on the 30,000 shares and who was missing last week when SEC wanted to question him. So far as the Schwabs were concerned, the transaction ended then...
...bald, tangle-bearded Alfred Hertz and the San Francisco Symphony opened the tenth annual summer concerts in the Woodland Theatre at Hillsborough, Calif. These concerts are the intense concern of rich Mrs. Leonora Wood Armsby, friend of many a famed musician. From her experience as patron-director of the concerts, Mrs. Armsby has written a book. Musicians Talk in which she frequently refers to visitors at her home-Gabrilowitsch, Hertz, Tibbett, Molinari, Walter, Coates- as "the celebrities." This summer's Hillsborough celebrities: Richard Lert, Basil Cameron, Jose Iturbi...