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...then, art lovers regard the quartocento and quintocento painters with the same veneration that philosophers accord Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, and poets, Homer, Sophocles, Virgil. It was of great moment to them, therefore, when Sir Joseph Duveen, art dealer of England, announced purchase for $3,000,000 of the famed Benson collection, which, better than any other private collection extant, traces the history and spirit of early painting in Italy. Robert H. Benson is head of a potent, English banking house which bears his name. With the assistance of his wife, who is related to the late Sir George Lindsay Holford...
...1G.B., Edward Ballantine '07 Sonata, C major Scarlatti The White Peacock Griffes Waldesrauchen Lisxt A. A. Landers '28 Two Sinfonias from Cantatas Bach C. S. Smith '27, Flute. E. B. Nichols 1G.B., Trumpet. Oliver Cope 3M., First Violin. A. MacKay-Smith 2L., Second Violin Paul Smith '25, Viola. John Benson '30, Cello...
GOODBYE, STRANGER?Stella Ben-son?Macmillan ($2). Stella Benson, liveliest of travelers, is a little too fanciful in her new novel to make good sense. Her general proposition is .that there are too many "soulless" people in the world. Corollary: U. S. civiliza- tion is largely to blame. Somewhere in China a childlike Briton, Clifford Cotton, with a witchlike mother and Daley, his healthy-animal wife from California, perceives Wisdom in the dull eyes, lean frame and tired voice of a thirtyish English girl, Lena, an itinerant musician who stops in his house to have a touch of pleurisy...
...Author Benson, British, is married to an Irishman and lives in Manchuria. She raises hounds, plays the guitar...
...following is a list of jurors. John Benson of Benson and Gamble, Advertising Agency of Chicago; S. E. Conybeare, President of the Association or National Advertisers and Assistant Sales Manager of the Armstrong Cork Company of Lancaster, Pa.; H. T. Ewald, President of the Campbell-Ewald Company of Detroit; F. C. Kendall, Editor of "Advertising and Selling Fortnightly," New York; W. D. Moriarty, Professor of Economics at the University of Southern California, A. C. Pearson, Treasurer of the United Publishers Corporation of New York; Hartford Powel Jr., Editor of the "Youth's Companion", Boston; Louis Wiley, Business Manager...