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Dates: during 1920-1929
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From the offices of sleek Sir Joseph Duveen, international art dealer, who had originally sold the paintings to Collector Hamilton, came a gala descriptive brochure. In it were pontifical utterances of Bernhard Berenson, famed European art critic who hovers eruditely in the background of most Duveen dealings...
Then, while the crowd gazed at each other for ten minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...
After college he went to the Philippines, where he organized anil financed cocoanut oil mills (Philippine Refining Corp.). During the War, Hamilton products sold well, the Hamilton fortune mightily increased. Returning to the U. S., he lived quietly in Great Neck, L. I. Sir Joseph Duveen and others were commissioned to start an Italian collection for the Hamilton home. They bought paintings by Veneziano, dei-Conti, Francia, Perugino, Melzi, Desiderio, Botticelli. Titian. The Hamilton home became a Renaissance rarity, authentic in painting, sculpture, tapestry, velvet, bric-a-brac. When it proved too small to hold the collections, Collector Hamilton moved...
...teacher, to get sympathy): "You don't know my father. He'll beat me with an iron chain, yes, sir! an iron chain, 'n after all I'm only a little...
From Forest Hills, Long Island, scene of many a tennis championship, came an unusually polished coterie, the Gardens Players, with Sir James Matthew Barrie's piquant thriller Shall We Join the Ladies? This play, long a favorite at all-star frolics, depicts a British landowner of gentle mien and sinuous mind who has gathered about his dinner table twelve persons whom he suspects of the murder of his brother. He informs them lazily of the fact, cleverly casts suspicion on them all, tells them that certain postprandial actions will reveal the murderer. The ladies then retire. Over their wine...