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...laymen. And almost every literate person has heard of Sir Joseph Duveen. He is, however, neither an artist nor a critic, as laymen have been known to wager. He is, of course, the supersalesman and the most famed name in contemporary art. Extensive buyers of art-Andrew Mellon, Jules Semon Bache, John Ringling-are widely recognized as such...
Died. Pal, 14, famed cinema bullterrier, in Hollywood; of old age. For ten years he chased and threatened the trouser-seats of Harold Lloyd, Larry Semon et al., scampered with Hal Roach's Rascals, paralyzed Negro extras, once performed with the late Wallace Reid...
Manhattan-Philadelphia financier, and his associates of Dieppe Corp. (including Financier William Kissam Vanderbilt Jr., Banker Jules Semon Bache, Cinemagnates Adolph Zukor, Joseph M. Schenck, Producer Florenz Ziegfeld), were freed last week from long litigation, proceeded with their plans to remodel Manhattan's Central Park Casino as "a dining place for New York society . . . around which the cultured life of the city can rotate." Announced features: a black glass ballroom, an orange terrace, a tulip pavilion...
This painting was sold, last week, by Sir Joseph Duveen to Manhattan Banker Jules Semon Bache for $600,000.* It had been owned by Florentines, Russians, Roman royalty, and had been missing for a period of 300 years. In 1925 Sir Joseph bought it from Oscar Huldschinksy, a Berlin collector. Banker Bache will not hang it in a serried gallery, but in his Fifth Avenue home. There, as private decoration, are three Titians, three Rembrandts, four Holbeins, a Hals, a Watteau, a Fragonard, and many another picture of rank. The collection is among the finest...
Died. Larry Semon, 39, funny cinemactor; of double pneumonia; in Victorville, Calif. Last March he went bankrupt with liabilities of nearly...