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...Exhibition Staff, visiting the U. S., let it drop that my father and I have seen little of the Wembly show. Every time we have attended, the public crowded around as, retarded progress, obscured vision. The Staff member suggested closing the Exhibition for one day to all but the Royal Family...
There is no musician on the committee of award. Nevertheless this year's recipient of the decoration is a musician. He is Roland Hayes, Negro singer (TIME, Oct. 8), who has already garnered an amazing harvest of similar trinkets from foreign royal and notable personages and societies. His passionate rendition of his people's deeply felt "spirituals" has endeared him to Boston and Philadelphia symphony subscribers as well as to titled connoisseurs. He is now on concert tour in Europe...
...OUT?A fairly absorbing picture of the seamy lining to the royal purple of Washington politics, with a touch of bawdy house atmosphere that does not offend the eyes with its red light...
Current Opinion, a U. S. magazine purporting to publish an accurate monthly news review, reproduced in its July issue the portrait of King George V which was exhibited by its creator, Charles Sims, at the Royal Academy, London, in May (TIME...
...well puts it, an original thought. Original, it must be added, with Mr. David Garnett, author of the just-published A Man in the Zoo.* By a strange coincidence Mr. Garnett hit upon the name John Cromartie also. And Mr. Cromartie had himself exhibited in a cage in the Royal Zoological Gardens, London, with this card on it: 'Homo Sapiens, MAN. This specimen, born in Scotland, was presented to the Society by John Cromartie, Esq. Visitors are requested not to irritate the man by personal remarks.' Oh, well, even Mr. Brisbane can't read everything. The press...