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...display until February 13 is a loan exhibition of Persian Painting in Gallery XIV of the Fogg Art Museum, which includes some objects from the Fogg Art Museum collection as well as notable loans from the Morgan Library, Mrs. John D. Rockefeller Jr., and various others. The exhibition includes outstanding examples of work from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries, laying stress upon the important periods of work done during that time...
...picture of "Mister Speaker" frontispiecing Vol. XIV, No. 25 (Dec. 16, 1929) is not TIMEWORTHY...
From Paris to Manhattan last week sped Art Collector Edouard Jonas with $1,250,000 worth of paintings and antiques to swell Manhattan's winter exhibitions. Included were Franz Hals' Portrait of a Woman; furniture used by Louis XIV; canvases painted by Ivan F. Choultse, court painter to the late Tsar Nicholas II. Court Painter Choultse will attend the showing of his work next month...
...finest collections of signatures in the country. In addition to these the seeker for historical backgrounds may find a book belonging at one time to Madame de Pompadour containing statistics concerning the French army, as well as books characteristically bound and bearing the arms of Louis XIV and Napoleon Bonaparte, taken from the collection of Charles Sumner...
Solomon's Temple. Many a commentator on the Jew-Arab crisis of last week loosely assumed that the "Wailing Wall," where all the trouble started, is part of the famed Temple of Solomon in Jerusalem, built by the Louis XIV of Jewry circa 1000 B.C. and today utterly in ruins though the outlines of the Temple remain. Actually Jews wail for the lost glories of their race at a superimposed and much later wall built by detested King Herod. The lower courses of masonry alone are supposed to contain stones originally part of the Temple...