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...Court. At the Second Court, the King appeared in the uniform of Colonel-in-Chief of the Scots Guards. Queen Mary wore a dress of pale gold lamé, ornamented with diamonds. On her head she wore a brilliant coronet of emeralds and diamonds and around her neck were priceless jewels, the most conspicuous of which was the carved Indian emerald presented to her at the Durbar...
Americans who are trying to keep Orville Wright from giving his first airplane to an English museum should let him do it. For the last twenty years England has been watching wealthy Americans carry off pictures, priceless manuscripts, even entire houses, because the British could not compete with the American rate of bidding. The Wright plane may form the nucleus of a collection of commercial masterpieces, and if the National Museum of Engineering, through its secretary, urges that it is distinctively American, and hence should remain here, the English can reply that then the products of Reynolds and Gainsborough...
...allow the trustees to utilize the objects after the policy which is of most value, artistically speaking, both to the treasures and to the museum. The collection is not at all homogenous, it contains duplicates of handicraft already on exhibition, and among the paintings, although there are many priceless masterpieces, there are some, it is said, that are not worthy of museum walls...
...Christmas dinner of the Lincoln's Inn Society the poem was read by its author. It has only recently been printed, however, and will be placed on sale today. Members of Lincoln's Inn, when questioned about it last night declared, "The parody is priceless, if you are in the Law School. If not, it depends on the excellence of your sense of humor...
...drawing itself is careless and not up to the artist's usual good work. The person who drew the lady in the African river should be instructed in anatomy. With the air filled by anthropology Professors who discuss the "missing link" over the radio, nothing could be more priceless than the first picture in the magazine, a chip of the Old Sod. The "Prologue" is above reproach...