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...London the Royal Academy made an important announcement. It has appointed a distinguished committee of artists and scientific experts "to investigate the very perplexing problem of cleaning old masterpieces." For a long time restoring and cleaning has been a matter of the greatest secrecy and not infrequently a matter of disaster. The Academy hopes to make it an international study, thus protecting museums and private owners of the treasures of the past. Whereas the Louvre has been overcautious, for years allowing varnish to darken her priceless paintings, Germany and Holland have gone to the other extreme, scrubbing and revarnishing...
...reports were issued concerning the lack of respect paid the royal party by an infuriated hartebeest.* One report said that the party had stalked and severely wounded a bull hartebeest and on approaching the animal it suddenly got up and charged them, but was shot before it reached the party. The other report said that the animal succeeded in wounding the Earl, that the Princess was forced to hide behind a sapling from where she managed (at close quarters) to shoot the hartebeest dead...
William Phillips, new Ambassador to Belgium, mounted a royal coach and was driven off to the royal palace, an escort of cavalry clanking in the rear...
...quarter of an hour of silent prayer, His Eminence rose from the priedieu, and accompanied by the Ministers of the Mass, walked down the aisle to meet the Royalty. With the punctuality that is the courtesy of Kings, at exactly 10 o'clock, Albert, Elizabeth and the Royal children arrived. Said the National Catholic Welfare Council: "The Mass then commenced. The Cardinal, whose ardent devotion to the Sacred Heart is well known, had himself chosen for the occasion the Votive Mass of the Eucharistic Heart of Jesus, of which the text was distributed as a souvenir program...
...Orbita (Royal Mail)?Wilfred T. Grenfell, Labrador Educator and missionary...