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...brokerage house of deCoppet & Doremus is famed for other things than quick and accurate execution of customers' orders. Some of its partners' cultural adventures are as well-known as their business deals. Last week dapper Rowland Stebbins, Broadway's most successful stage "angel" for several seasons, announced he would put a stake back in Wall Street, become a special partner in deCoppet & Doremus,* his old firm. When he retired in 1929 to produce plays, Rowland Stebbins had been with the firm 23 years, twelve as a general partner. Before that he was an engineer until his cousin, the late Edward...
...fortnight past has been painful to Christian ears. Repeatedly the Savior's Holy Mother was termed by Senators and Representatives "the so-called Virgin Mary." Last week the Congress added insult to injury by voting unanimously to change the names of two Mexico City suburbs. San Angel became Obregon, Congress substituting for the "Holy Angel" one-armed General Alvaro Obregon, famed champion of the Revolution and one of the most popular presidents Mexico has ever had, who was assassinated in San Angel by a religious fanatic in 1928. The suburb Guadalupe-Hidalgo (a double-barreled name recalling both...
...exhibition are "Nude Studies" by Tintoretto, from the De Nicolo collection; "Death of the Baptist", "Rent on the Flight", "Landscape", and "A Hermit, Reading", all by Guercino; drawings for ceiling decorations by Tiepolo; "Head" by Piazetta, and "Nude Studies", by Degas. "Le Vieux Charron", "Nude" by Rodin, "Angel with a Trumpet" by Blake; and a "Study of an Indian Girl" by Kolbe...
...burst into the best-seller lists, loud was the clucking from the critics' henroost. Drowned in the almost unanimous cackle of praise were a few deprecatory chirps, chiefly to the effect that it was a pity Author Wilder had not chosen a U. S. scene. When The Angel That Troubled the Waters and The Woman of Andros showed him still far from home, deprecatory chirps became louder. In The Long Christmas Dinner, a collection of six one-act plays no commercial producer would care to put on. Author Wilder has returned at last...
...doing this, the swallow stayed north too long. Winter came and the swallow died of cold. The Prince's heart cracked. The Town Councillors, squabbling over the Prince's metal body. threw the heart and the small dead bird on an ash heap from which an angel carried them to heaven...