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Died. William Holabird, 68, architect, originator of the skeleton type of building, which revolutionized architecture and made possible the skyscraper, at Evanston, 111., after a long illness...
...contains only one della Robbia?a terra cotta bas-relief entitled Prudence, bought in 1921 under the bequest of Joseph Pulitzer.) 2) A 15th Century statue of St. Paul, sold to Assistant Curator Breck, of the Metropolitan, for $3,000. 3) A bas-relief group, Les Lansquenets (a former type of German footsoldier; the figures were called "devils" by the people of Contrisson, where the owner lived), to which it is alleged Demotte added new figures before he sold it to the Louvre. 4) Two capitals from the Church of Notre Dame de la Couldre, at Parthenay, France, 12th Century...
Bibles. The ordinary Gutenberg Bible, of which 41 are known to be in existence, has 641 pages. (This was the first issue of the Bible printed with movable type, 1450, 1455.) Gabriel Wells, a Fifth Avenue, Manhattan, bookdealer, recently sold piecemeal an imperfect copy of 593 pages. Where whole books or chapters were intact, they were sold as units. The splitting up of the book makes it possible for many museums and libraries to have pages of this famous Bible, where it would be impossible to secure whole copies. Those which have benefited under this scheme are: Toledo Museum...
Penrod and Sam. Time was when child actors were received with hysterical applause if they were any better than downright offensive. Along came Jackie Coogan. Now child actors are a requisite on every movie lot in California. Why? Because they are adapted to a type of entertainment which is faintly damned by the adjective "wholesome...
Pithecanthropus erectus, the 500,000-year-old Java ape-man and first of humanoid type discovered, whose thighbone, skull-top, and grinding teeth are in the private possession of Dr. Eugen Dubois, of Amsterdam, the discoverer, will be placed in a public museum for the benefit of all scientists, if a movement started by Dr. Henry Fairfield Osborn, President of the American Museum of Natural History, succeeds. The fossil remains have not been exhibited since the 1894 meeting of the British Association for the Advancement of Science...