Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1928, Page 11

LIBRARY GETS PART - OF HOUDINI RELICS finstitution Here Learns It| Will Not Receive Rare ' Collection of Prints. Admirers of Harry Houdini, master imagician and escape artist, now have | something new to be mystified about, | for it has: developed that in leaving valuable material to the Library of Con- | gress his rare collection of handbills, programs and prints, recently sold for some $35,000, was not included with the | numerous works on magic, spiritism and | the occult arts that made up the library that recently came to Washington. Dr. Henry Ridgely Evans, chief edi- torial assistant in the Bureau of Educa- tion of the Interior Department, recently RUMANIA COUNTING SENATORIAL VOTES Lower House Tabulation Shows Peasants Receive 80 Per Cent of Ballots, By the Assoclated Press. BUCHAREST, Rumania, December 15—Results of the national elections held today to elect two-thirds of the membership of the Senate will not be known until tomorrow and possibly not before Monday. There were 150 seats at stake, about three-score Senators not being ‘:lub]ect to popular vote. Parliament three days ago tal ulated tonight show a total of 2,785,603 votes. The Peasant party received 2,200,000, or nearly 80 per cent. The Liberals came next, with 185,000, and the Hungarians were third, with 151,000. PO Idas Celebrate. GARDNER, Mass. (#)—Nearly a third of all the woman members of the Finnish Luthern Church here are named Ida. When the fact was dis- covered, the Idas joined in a festival French Prism Binoculars —PART 1. W. GIFTS ' FOR EVERY MAN AND BOY b o0 oSaks- THE AVENUE AT 7™ . HE KNOWS ‘WINIFRED ROCKEFELLER, If It’s from Saks, It’s a Good Gift! 17 ‘went up to the Library of Congress to view the collection he had induced | Daughter of Mr. and Mrs, Percy Avery ‘Houdini to leave to the Washington | Rockefeller, who weds Prof. Brooks institution, for they were personal |Emeny of Yale in New York. friends for many years. " Collection Sold. COL. H. M. NELLY, NOTED | Genuine Lemaire Dr. Evans said yesterday that he was greatly surprised to discover that the Houdini collection of handbills, pro- grams and prints was not included, and upon inquiry from the trustee of the | 6th Corps Area Staff Member and Houdini estate ascertained that this collection was sold to Messmore Kendall, New York lawyer. Inquiry from a New York friend con- ‘cerning the collection brought Dr. Evans | By the Associated Press. this reply: “This collection of programs, play bills and lithos, which was very | Meredith Nelly, member of the 6th valuable, consisted for the greater Part | o, ¢ areq staff and former West Point | of theatrical material relating to the drama. Houdinl's dramatic library was | foot ball coach, is dead. | by far the most valuable of the several collections he possessed. This material | Week ago and an operation was unsuc was mounted and indexed and cross- | Cessful. He was 50 years old. He died indexed by & man of large experience | Thursday. .in dramatic literature and history of the | stage, Mr. Becks, who spent nearly two in such a manner as to have rendered impracticable the taking away of any ! part of it, and as it consisted of five- | %! | sixths dramatic material and only about | 5 one-sixth magical material, he probably | considered it part of the theatrical col- \lection—as, indeed, it was. This ! theatrical library was sold intact to Messmore Kendall of New York, for -either $30,000 or $35,000. As you prob- ably know, Houdini also left his library on nplr}‘zualism to the Congressional Garrick Diary Included, 1 Included in the collection that was 'sold, Dr. Evans ex‘)ln!ned, was the |priceless diary of David Garriek, and as Houdini had a penchant for .delving into second-hand book shops.and an- tique stores in Europe, he amassed a fortune in manuscripts and documents. |Composing this interesting array were interesting and curious qata relating to. i had packets of letters writ- 'ten'by Edmond Kean, Charles Macklin, Jenny Lind, Mrs. Siddons and Edwin 'Booth; an autograph letter of Count fde_Cagliostro, a sheaf of epistles writ- k the famous Mme. de la Motte, E . an [ in trust for him 'Society. for Psychical Research. OXFORD U. MANTO PUT SLANG IN DICTIONARY fAuthor Proposes to Include “Bo- gus,” “Loafer” and Similar Ex- pressions in Publication. CHICAGO (#).—An lishman of |find a place. ‘The historical dictionary of “Amer- fcan English,” which will trace the origin and devel ent of American |wordsand phrases is the hical project of Sir William A. ie, now a professor of the University of Chi« 2 sll' William was knighted by King George V for his work on the Oxford English Dictionary. Among the expressions in' everyday usage, which Sir William will list, are ‘glm’&‘\:::efl;lg." “to c'l(fi!‘ on."'w"fg“gla 5 of* “carpe g strl 'ol” “law abiding,” “to take a back |seat” and “backwoods.” ! oy ¥ . " Prof. Craigie’s original scholastic [creation was born. of his conviction ‘that the 'nnsgl;nted seedlings from the pure tree df Elizabethan English— jnot Americanisms only, but the whole United States tongle of today—should {}:e collected and edted in dictiondry orm. : From its seventeenth century be- 3 this English scholar has set about the task of tracing the language of the United States to the present time, .chiefly through the aid of volun- teer readers. Modern dictionaries are so imperfect, jhe declares, that a complete history of the English tongue in the United States s ‘needed. RESEARCH FUND SOUGHT. |Million Dollars Will Be Asked by Historical Association. 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