Word: rare
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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James F. Ballard, St. Louis amateur, presented his collection of 129 rare oriental rugs to the Metropolitan Museum of Art, Manhattan. He still has 250. In the 18 years during which he has collected rugs, he has traveled over 300,000 miles in search of his textile treasures. Some of them cost him as much as $35,000 and years of pursuit, and with the acquisition of almost every one is connected a tale of adventure or hardship. Two Seljuk " bird rugs," woven in 1550, were secured in Constantinople in 1922 and went with him through the sack and massacre...
...evening in Paine Hall of the Music Building by Mr. Boris Saslawsky. Mr. Saslawsky is a Russian baritone who has been travelling in America on concert tours for several years. He has won a very favorable reputation for his rendering of simple Russian folk tunes, which he sings with rare feeling and humor. In addition his program this evening includes several French folk songs,--"Au Clair de la Lune", and "Les Berceaux", as well as several old English and Scotch melodies...
Nearly 10,000 volumes belonging to the collection of rare books of the late William Whiting Nolen, the "Widow" of Little Hall, were placed on exhibition in the galleries of William K. MacKay Company, Inc., at 7 Bosworth Street, Boston, on Saturday afternoon. The books will remain on display today and tomorrow. They will then be offered for sale at public auction on Wednesday and Thursday afternoons, and on Thursday and Friday evenings...
...have succeeded in giving their work a touch of genuine poetry and quaintness of atmosphere. She knows thoroughly the towns and people of which she writes. She has studied their beauties as well as their peculiarities. Her rich humor and wistfulness give to her novels and stories a rare quality of humanity as well as quiet distinction...
...Vienna, happy faces are rare. But at Dr. Cizek's school, a great, bare studio room near the Graben, 60 shabby boys and girls from rich and poor families alike are intently interested in what they are doing and obviously happy. The children choose their own subjects and media. They play, eat, bring their pets when they want to. Cizek's genius is in knowing how to keep his hands off. He encourages, suggests, advises rarely, but always the children draw and paint only what they feel. "If it were possible," says he, "I would have my school...