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...queue of people waited all night and all day outside the doors of His Majesty's Theatre in Melbourne, Australia. At an auction sale, held from the stage, tickets were sold−some at 100 guineas each. It was Dame Nellie Melba's farewell appearance−Melba, for over 20 years the world's greatest singer, true successor to Patti. The vast audiences went wild with joy, cheered and cheered−and eight carloads of flowers were carried to the stage...
...July 4 an important auction at Christie's will dispose of a newly authenticated Rembrandt, Two Men Conversing, with certificates attached, and 63 of the Duke of Westminster's collection, including important canvases by Rubens, Van Dyck, Bellini, Murillo, Raphael, del Sarto, Titian, Veronese...
...years ago Geraldine Farrar, empress of Carmen, told a tumultuous and rather bitter farewell to the Metropolitan Opera House, Manhattan. Farrar-fans roared vociferously, "tossed their sweaty nightcaps in the air," and bore off such prizes as they could from the ensuing auction sale of the prima donna's stage trappings...
...recent sale of the Kansas City, Mexico & Orient Railroad at public auction to Clifford Histed for $3,000,000, recalls the peculiar circumstances under which the line was originally constructed...
Linwood M. Andrews, Los Angeles collector, paid Adolph Brugier, of Santa Barbara, $100,000 for Titian's The Madonna, Holy Child and Titian's Daughter, Lavinia. Mr. Brugier, while studying in Italy 30 years ago, bought the painting at an auction, paying the equivalent of $150. It has been identified as a Titian supposed to have been lost in a fire in Madrid...