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Assistant curators insisted that the new label had nothing to do with the remarks of Micro-Chemist Toch, the painting had been reassigned to Drost (a Rembrandt pupil) several months ago when the picture was cleaned...
...weak to-do about a woman who leaves her husband, but later returns to him), wastes a lot of his genuine talent on several pitiably bad songs. He cracks appallingly stale jokes-among them, the one about the girl who resents having her beauty compared to an old Rembrandt. In Act II, however, Comedienne Patsy Kelly capers through some coarse monkeyshines. Mr. Jolson sings a Yiddish folk song which is eminently successful and which anyone can understand, two spry and clever Negro dancers named Carol Chilton and Maceo Thomas appear. First night spectators, seeing Mr. Jolson's pretty wife...
...loan exhibition of drawings by the "little Dutch masters" of the Seventeenth century will be held at the Germanic Museum from Wednesday, March 25 to Saturday, April 25. The purpose of the show is to supplement the exhibition of Rembrandt etchings held at the Fogg Museum, and to illustrate the artistic activities of Rembrandt's contemporaries. The works of these artists have been sadly neglected by American collectors and as a result, in spite of their great charm, they are exceedingly rare. The Germanic Museum has gathered together a notable group of over fifty drawings from public and private collections...
Probably the best known painting in the collection is the "Portrait of an Old Man," ascribed to Rembrandt, which hung for over a hundred years in the palace of the Duke of Oldenburg, whose collection was partially dispersed after the war. It is known to have been there as early as 1823. It is a powerful work in an excellent state of preservation. The cool tones of the background, the definite outline, and comparatively smooth handling would all tend to place it in Rembrandt's early years...
Many have been the hackings of great works of art, seldom is the damage irreparable. In the Ryks Museum itself, The Night Watch, perhaps Rembrandt's greatest picture, had a small hole torn in it several years ago. But the most famed cases of art vandalism occurred in the staid British Museum and National Gallery, concerned the Portland Vase and Rokeby Venus...