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...young man in the shadowy taproom, and such actions would be frowned upon on the part of the chosen Virgin. But Hansi is a fresh, strapping brunette, popular, capable, so she was elected to play Mary Magdalene. Her mother and father, the latter somewhat weakened by a convivial life, display satisfaction in their daughter's success; Hansi cheerily conceals her regret that she cannot appear as Mary...
...presentation of exotic subject indicates how far aloof is The Sportsman's clientele from the mass of U. S. readers: "The Business of Cricking," "Badminton Takes Hold," "Alligators for Sport," "The Scientific Sport of Bird Banding," "In Praise of the Bilgeboard Scow." In the May issue, with a display of pride such as attends an epochal event, The Sportsman presents its "scoop": complete data and sail plans of Sir Thomas Lipton's challenging Shamrock V and the four U. S. contenders for the honor of defending the America's Cup in September-material never before divulged...
...chill London dawn broke on Covent Garden last week and disclosed a sight other than the wholesale display of artichokes, turnips, lettuce, peas. Outside the shabby old opera house which today stands in the centre of the market district, a queue of patient men and women had formed. Wise ones had brought camp stools, rolls, coffee, to wait as comfortably as possible to buy their seats for the opening of London's opera and social season. At 7 p. m. those fortunate enough to have gained admission were gawking excitedly at the entrance of three princesses into the Royal...
...most complete of its kind in the United States, and among the most important ever assembled in the University art museum. Some of the best paintings in the exhibition are from the brush of Sir Henry Raeburn. 1756-1823, his "Elfinstone Children" being possibly the outstanding canvas on display. Others, among them the portraits of Hugh Hope and Sir Walter Scott, display a warmth and depth of treatment that is unusually fine. Another portrait, that of Mrs Ellen Cochrane, from the brush of the same master, possesses the game piquancy which marks so many of his canvases, particularly the masterpiece...
Other important paintings are an early Turner, "Seapiece," lent by the Malden Public Library; the "Grand Landscape" of Gainsborough; John Crome's "The Mill," the only representative of this artist on display: a small canvas by John Sell Cotman, "Chateau in Normandy": and some water colors by John Ruskin, Thomas Girtin and William Blake. It is interesting to note that group of one Turner and two Raeburns are hung in the identical place in which they were when the museum opened...