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Romance (Metro -Goldwyn -Mayer). Here is Greta Garbo postured superbly against the brownstone elegance of Manhattan 30 years ago-Garbo in Watteau hats and waisted dresses which perfectly become both her figure and the gracefully nostalgic story of a forfeited love. It is Edward Sheldon's old play in which Doris Keane starred for so long on the stage, an adaptation arranged in flashbacks, directed by Clarence Brown, with Lewis Stone as the middle-aged lover to whom Garbo returns after an interlude with a clergyman. For some reason the script makes her an Italian soprano. This detail, superficial...
...missing for a period of 300 years. In 1925 Sir Joseph bought it from Oscar Huldschinksy, a Berlin collector. Banker Bache will not hang it in a serried gallery, but in his Fifth Avenue home. There, as private decoration, are three Titians, three Rembrandts, four Holbeins, a Hals, a Watteau, a Fragonard, and many another picture of rank. The collection is among the finest...
...monument to French Democracy--in fact, the very bath tub in which the great Marat was stabbed by Charlotte Corday. This new fad of Americans no longer to confine themselves to purely artistic objects and to enter the field of historic memorials has caused the fellow countrymen of Watteau and Monet to rise in righteous anger to defend their national treasures. At present, their efforts have taken the form of a million dollar law suit against the gentleman of the United States...
Innumerable duets will find a luminescent cosiness in the La Salle-Fisher special convertible town car, glistening with greens, pale yellows and silver after The Conversation by Watteau...
...Collection; in the first three days they had paid altogether a little less than $200,000. Mrs. Elisha Walker, Manhattan social bigwig, successfully proffered $44,000 for six tapestried chairs and a sofa that had been made, a long time ago, for Queen Marie Antoinette of France. A little Watteau, which showed a pale libidinous god making love to a plump nymph, went to a dealer for $12,500. A portrait by Fragonard of the Chevalier de Billaut, "in gay attire, seated in a chair," drew $24,000 from P. W. French & Co. P. W. French & Co. also paid...