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...Ellin P. Speyer Prize ($300) for "a portrayal of humaneness toward animals," was given, after due thought, to Sculptor Gertrude K. Lathrop for a statue of a woolly lamb...
...girl, in a Riverside Drive penthouse full of souvenirs, curios and whatnots. On its terrace she raises lettuce, tomatoes, weeds which she does not like to destroy because she thinks them pretty. In Maman Savage's parlor is a nickel-&-dime bank for contributions to the Ellin Prince Speyer hospital for ani-mals-in memory of her cat, buried in Hartsdale Cemetery beneath a tombstone marked "Our Minikin." Stately and white- haired, Maman Savage wears sombre silks, heavy ornaments, a gold-rimmed pince-nez. But she is as keen-eyed and lively as any youngster, joining gaily in such...
...Manhattan. Late in 1925 Frisco's Edward Norphlet Brown, alarmed over the "strategic" situation in his territory, proposed to his bankers that they purchase working control of Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific, whose 8,330 miles of line far exceeded Frisco's 5,859 miles. For James ("Jimmy") Speyer, the shrewd, dapper, little 73-year-old banker who, for all practical purposes, is Speyer & Co., that deal proved highly profitable. From commissions and the firm's own speculative commitments, Speyer & Co. made no less than $1,900.000. For Frisco, however, the deal was disastrous. What was more...
...first thoroughgoing scandal in the Academy's 110 years occurred three months ago when an Academician was expelled in disgrace (TIME, Dec. 17). Stephen Bransgrove was an Australian scene painter who had won the Ellin P. Speyer prize for animal portraiture in 1933 with a canvas which he had copied stroke for stroke from a colored reproduction in a British magazine. The animal prize was awarded this year to a heavy plaster statue of a pelican swallowing a fish, by the eminently reputable Bruce Moore...
...spring exhibition of the Academy, an Australian artist named Stephen Bransgrove submitted a study of bulbous furry-footed horses entitled Clydesdales. Academicians liked it so well that they awarded it the $300 Ellen Speyer prize for animal portraiture, and knowing practically nothing about the artist, called him before the committee and elected him to membership. Respectable Portraitist Henry Rittenberg was proud to do Stephen Bransgrove, A. N. A. This spring Academician Bransgrove submitted another canvas of a man, a girl, five setters and a shotgun. Another more acute Academician discovered that, line for line, stroke for stroke...