Word: viewing
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Staying There. In London speculative bookings, not only of hotel rooms but of seats from which to view the Coronation Procession, have surged in wild fluctuations and last week continued erratic. Nevertheless London is such a rearmament boom town in 1937 that, even if nobody came to the Coronation-and by lowest estimates 2,100,000 are coming*-the hotels would be overcrowded as they were last spring and summer, the theatres jammed and head waiters (usually Italians in the swankest English places) as cocky as in 1929. Today in London almost no top-class hotel rooms for Coronation time...
Aviation offered Prince Albert opportunity to enter an arm of the fighting services easier on the stomach than the Royal Navy, ideal from the point of view of his mechanical skill. His Majesty today is a better pilot than King Edward ever...
...Stock Exchange that another mild epileptic "falling fit" had been suffered by His Majesty. This denial, since it came virtually from the honest King-Emperor himself, could be accepted as the nearest thing possible to the lowdown on a matter of utmost interest to British businessmen in view of the approaching Coronation in which they have so many millions at stake. But between the business-like King-Emperor and his business subjects, stand the Gentlemen of England. The printed denial in Cavalcade was pounced upon, its excision forced...
This week the fountain of Miss Vanuxem and her bittern (known officially as the "Spirit of the Schuylkill") was on view at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and with it something unique in the history of art exhibitions: every known surviving work by Sculptor William Rush. Preparing for the show for ten months, Curator Henri Marceau raised the list of known surviving Rush items from about 30 to 80, and though it entailed a raid on Independence Hall itself for a statue of Washington, all of them were finally made available for this week's show...
Well into its second year is SEC's investment trust investigation, the specimen under the microscope last week being Harrison Williams' Central States Electric Corp. (see below). SEC's findings to date have not been precisely flattering to investment trust management-which was not surprising in view of the fact that the investigation's prime purpose was to find out why investors lost upwards of $5,000,000,000 in investment trust securities during Depression. But in 1936 the trust managers demonstrated that they had learned a lot since they took off with ceiling zero...