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King George, with Queen Mary, postponed their arrival at an important cricket match last week long enough to "open" a new wing in the big modern-and-foreign galleries at the National Gallery of Modern Art, known as the Tate Galleryš over by the Thames riverbank. There they greeted the donor of the new galleries, Sir Joseph Duveen, merchandizer of Art to U. S. and other millionaires...
...Joseph has, with characteristically sensational effulgence, bedizened the new galleries in green marble doorways, marble parquets, gilt ceilings, much after the fashion of his celebrated "torture rooms" deep within his fancy Fifth Avenue establishment. Of course there were paintings at Tate too-especially, 14 Sargents whose noble canvases have not become so numerous on the art-dealers' shelves as to be in need of much publicity, preceding facile disposal. A notable picture hung was that of the beheading of John, the Baptist, by Puvis de Chavannes. Degas was well represented as well as some brilliant paintings by Bancini, Daumiur...
...this square, the coffin was placed upon a black-draped platform, great, smoking funeral pyres at its corners. Here the corpse of Ebert remained in tate for several hours while troops marched past to the strains of Chopin's and Beethoven's solemn music an:! while sorrowing Berliners took their last look at the remains of their late chief...
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