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...Jacoby will take a full diplomatic staff, including Brig. General William Wright Harts and Charles Lee Cooke, the State Department's ceremonial officer. One reason why the U. S. should participate so elaborately in an Abyssinian ceremony: J. G. White Engineering Corp. of New York has a large contract with Ras Taffari to dam Lake Tsana, source of the Blue Nile, to build Abyssinian highways...
...president of the borough of Queens, Maurice E. Connolly, had been jailed for fat sewer-contract graft (TIME...
From the Manhattan office of President Frederic Newlin Price of the American Art Dealers Association came announcement of a model contract, defining rights and privileges of dealers and artists. Executive committees representing the Dealers Association and the American Artists Professional League drew up the agreement, agreed to abide by it. Long a worker for such an agreement was the late William Sherman Potts, president of the American Society of Miniature Painters. For as Dealer Price observed: "It is time the art business should be put on a business basis. A generation ago it was a gamble. That...
Chief item of the new code pertains to reorders of portraits originally secured through dealers. The contract stipulates: on reorders commissioned by clients within one year after completion of the first portrait and on orders traceable to paintings contracted for through a dealer, the dealer receives full commission. During the second year the dealer's commission on reorders shall be four-fifths of the original rate; in the third year, three-fifths ; in the fourth, two-fifths; after that, nothing. If misunderstandings arise, artist and dealer will submit their case to arbitration. The pact recommends, does not stipulate, that...
...things happened to George Bernard Shaw last week which he would never have predicted. He allowed himself to sign a contract to let his plays be cinematized (see p. 46). And he found himself set to music. Until pictures could talk, a Shavian film was obviously impossible. Almost as strange as a silent Shaw picture would be a Shaw opera. That, however, had not been attempted by the young German composer, Karl Friedrich Grimm, who mounted Shaw's steps last week, score in hand. He had merely written a prelude to Shaw's Caesar & Cleopatra. Shaw listened, pondered...