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...They took seven-year-old Suzanne Boone and her parents. (Dr. Joel T. Boone is White House physician.) With Mr. Ringling by their side they saw the land elephants and lots of other creatures. President Coolidge shook hands with plump little Lilian Leitzel, the show's regal trapeze artist. And before hurrying back to his duties, President Coolidge discovered that a sea elephant is just an overgrown species of seal (Mirounga leonina), carnivorous, mammalian, with a flexible proboscis (not nearly so long as the land elephant's), wiry whiskers, hind limbs so rudimentary as to look like...
...behind the curtain to lift The Harvest Waggon off the stage and replace it with Frans Hals' A Young Cavalier. Sir Joseph Duveen had just bought the Gainsborough for a price that set a record for U. S. picture auctions. The painting, a large canvas into which the artist had put portraits of two of his daughters as well as a wagon, a team of horses and a broken shower of golden light, was indubitably the finest single piece offered in the sale of the collection that had belonged to the late steel tycoon, Elbert Henry Gary. The other...
...getting to their limits. The sale started, at quarter to nine, with a little landscape by Frits Thaulow; at quarter past ten, after several fortunes and 39 pictures had changed hands, the last canvas was carried off the stage. A good Reynolds, one of the few that have the artist's signature, sold, in less than two minutes...
...sale to $2,297,763, the largest amount ever returned at a U. S. art auction. The most notable piece purchased on the last afternoon was a small marble bust by Jean Antoine Houdon; the head was that of a plump and imperious baby girl, the daughter of the artist. The woman who got the bust was later discovered to be a buyer for M. Knoedler & Co., who in turn were probably buying for Mrs. Edward Stephen Harkness...
Died. Charles Sims, R. A., 55, famed English artist; by drowning, in the River Tweed, near Melrose, Scotland. Four years ago he was hotly discussed because his portrait of a skinny-shanked King George V was declined by the trustees of the Royal Academy, on whose order it had been painted...