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...portfolio of any tycoon who collects etchings will almost certainly be found plates by one or more of the great Scottish trio who are currently the highest priced print-makers in the world: Muirhead Bone, David Young Cameron, James McBey. In Manhattan last week the swank art firm of Arthur H. Harlow & Co. celebrated its 25th anniversary with a hand-picked show of dry points and water colors by round-faced, affable Muirhead Bone, 60. It was no place for the impecunious. The prints ranged from $72 to $1,500, the water colors from $85 to more than $350 apiece...
...with the Grand Fleet in the North Sea. Widely traveled, he has paid for most of his vacations with etchings, some of which are now worth over $1,000 apiece, of the cities he has seen. Yet for all his fame he is not above turning an honest Scottish penny in commercial magazine illustration. Pride of the Illustrated London News last June was Muirhead Bone's four-hour pen & ink sketch of the Queen Mary leaving Southampton on her maiden voyage. Pride of Muirhead Bone are mural-panels by his son Stephen and daughter-in-law Mary...
...gesture of international goodwill the English-Speaking Union presented Washington's Smithsonian Institution with a bronze bust of renowned 19th Century Physicist William Thomson, Lord Kelvin, From English scientists came a 1,500-word greeting. Scottish scientists parsimoniously cabled: "Felicitations...
...Viceroy's personal success in winning Indians to ignore the malcontents who were urging them to boycott the first election under the new Constitution and make it unworkable, the Marquess of Linlithgow was not uttering a platitude but making a particularly crucial appeal when he keynoted with Scottish straightforwardness: "Trust me-I will trust you." King of Kings. In the Orient many a peewee potentate styles himself...
...addition to the Royal Dukes and Duchesses, the Duke & Duchess of Marlborough, the Duke and Duchess of Sutherland, the Duke & Duchess of Buccleuch and Queensberry and the Earl and Countess of Rosebery were invited to be with the King and Mrs. Simpson at Balmoral Castle. Its nine Scottish pipers who, headed by Major Henry Forsyth, are accustomed to march around the Monarch's dinner table nightly and render old Highland airs at 9:30, were ordered by Edward VIII last week to pipe for the benefit of his assembled guests St. Louis Blues whose lyric goes: "St. Louis woman...