Arts: International Exhibition

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Once this famed stamp, the "British Guiana 1856" belonged to Philippe la Rénotière von Ferrari, an odd curmudgeon whose collection was bought by Mr. Hind (textiles). Count Ferrari lived in a castle at 57 Rue de Varennes, Paris, which his mother had willed to the Austrian Embassy in order that her son might live under the Austrian flag. In that gaunt house Von Ferrari kept the only copy of the Boscawen (N. H.) stamp, the Lockport (N. Y.) stamp, and one of the Hawaiian "missionary"* stamps. These Mr. Hind, now admittedly the world's foremost collector, bought for $12,000, $8,500 and $14,500 respectively.

Near the stamps of Collector Hind the lights of the Grand Central Palace shone on a stamp with George Washington's face on it (an old New York issue, one of the rarest stamps in the world); the "St. Louis" 20-cent stamp with two bears holding a shield; the one-franc tête bêche stamps (printed upside down); the freak inverted 24-cent U. S. airplane stamps (only one sheet of them got into circulation) and many another scrap of paper that it would be bad luck to throw away if found on some old letters in the attic.

Negro Models

The more staid of subscribers carped; others acquiesced. Last week, in London, Artist Frank Brangwyn continued with his plans, imperturbed. From a U. S. revue appearing at the London Pavilion, he selected Negro show girls as the models for the panels he is designing for the War memorial of the House of Lords in the Royal Gallery. The sheen of ebony figures will appear on the panel representing the Maltese Islands in the series called the "Pageant of the Empire," which show the various racial types. Carpers were alarmed by suspicions of fierce negroid heads, gleaming black torsos, black limbs in primitive attitudes.