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...Culture is the forte of famed Art-Patron-Banker Otto Hermann Kahn, but at Paris last week he yielded to his foible, omniscience, and spoke of international politics: "In Europe it is a tradition very rarely departed from, that when once a Foreign Minister, with the approval of his Cabinet, has made a commitment, ratification by Parliament may be taken for granted...
...Italy. The citizens of Urbino lately sent a delegation to Rome and last week II Duce decided to take down, from its hooks in the Uffizi at Florence, Raphael's portrait of a relative of Emilia Pia de Montefeltro, one Francesco Maria Della Revere, Duke of Urbino and patron of its painters. After a fitting period of exhibition in the Ministry of Public Education at Rome, the duke will be restored to his duchy, courtesy of Signor Raphael Sanzio...
Just before he sailed for Europe on the Leviathan one day last week, Otto Hermann Kahn, patron of Art, briefly announced the designation of Benjamin Wistar Morris and Joseph Urban as the two architects who will plan the new Metropolitan Opera House. He indicated that he hoped the performances of the architects would be as void of modernism as opera itself...
Managing a movie theatre is undoubtedly a much harder job than it seems to the average patron who yawns and wishes he had gone in town instead; but it does seem probable that one good picture on each bill would draw a better crowd than two poor ones, eked out with an act of fifth-rate vaudeville. Of what use are ushers in natty uniforms, radio set in the lobby, and all the luxury of the Pharoahs, in the pictures on the screen are specimens of Hollywood at its worst. Movies in the Square, especially at such times of stress...
Like music over the water came the sound of their splashing to the ears, of William Wrigley Jr. i It was an inspiration, no less-this swimming race. He was advertising his enormous real estate development at Catalina. He was showing himself to be a patron of sport. He was making a bow to the sex, for he had stipulated that if a man won the race (this channel has never been swum) he would get $25,000 and the first woman to finish would get $15,000, but that if a woman won she would...