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Though he was never slovenly in his drawing he was artist enough to let his style change with the changes in modern life. In May he sent to the Royal Academy a highly formalized picture of Christ's entry into Jerusalem. The British press received it with the angry snorts generally reserved for the opera of Sculptor Jacob Epstein. Apparently it meant a great deal to Billy Orps. His health broke down, he spent most of the summer in a nursing home. Recently he was discharged and attempted to get on with his painting. Last week came the final...
...Hitler, the Mussolini of young Zionists. Round-faced, bespectacled, he is a poet and international journalist. He founded the Jewish Legion of the British Army, fought in Palestine during the World War, was imprisoned in the fortress of Acco for leading a Jewish defense corps against Arab attackers in Jerusalem in 1920. Viewed now as a firebrand, he is forbidden to return to Palestine...
...Lang is the sort of man who would rather have a pious widow's mite than $10,000,000 not given in the proper spirit. The Archbishop would live meanly among the poor, were he not obliged to live sumptuously at Lambeth Palace. The Primate would sail to Jerusalem in a fishing smack like St. Peter's, did not J. P. Morgan insist upon taking him there on the Corsair (TIME, March...
...papers will be produced by both sides. For example, every phase of the $10,000,000 Royal Mail 5% debenture bond issue of 1928 will be minutely examined, the Crown trying to prove that this was a barefaced swindle by the Knight of Justice of St. John of Jerusalem. He sold these shares, the Crown charges, by telling the public that Royal Mail was earning enough in 1928 to cover interest on the debentures five times, whereas for the past seven years the Royal Mail had not earned but lost money...
Died. Hussein ibn Ali, 76, onetime King of Hedjaz and Grand Sheriff† of Mecca, father of King Feisal of Iraq; father of Emir Abdullah of Transjordania; father of King Ali who succeeded him for a short time when he was forced to abdicate in 1924; in Amman, near Jerusalem Aided by Col. Thomas Edward Lawrence, he revolted against the Turks in 1916 dreamed of establishing a Pan-Arabian Empire which, says Col. Lawrence, the Allied Powers promised him in a treaty in 1915. But Arabia was parcelled out and he became King only of the Hedjaz, was dethroned...