A startling number of masterpieces now in American museums are there because of the shrewdness of one man, Joseph Duveen, art dealer to John D. Rockefeller, Andrew Mellon, Henry Clay Frick, and William Randolph Hearst. In a series of articles originally published in "The New Yorker," playwright S.N. Behrman evokes the larger-than-life Duveen and reveals the wheeling and dealing, subterfuge, and spirited drama behind the sale of nearly--but not quite--priceless Rembrandts, Vermeers, Turners, and Bellinis.

Star-studded, epic adaptation of Henryk Sienkiewicz's novel based in Rome during the time of Nero. Marcus Vinicius (Robert Taylor), a commander in the army, returns to the city and falls in love with a Christian girl called Lygia (Deborah Kerr). However, as he is a pagan, she rejects his suit and refuses to have anything to do with him. Meanwhile, Nero (Peter Ustinov) burns down the city, blames it on the Christians, and prepares to feed them to the lions.

This is a new release of the original 1933 edition.

THIS 74 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Theatre Guild Anthology V2, by S. N. Behrman. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1419181424.

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THIS 74 PAGE ARTICLE WAS EXTRACTED FROM THE BOOK: The Theatre Guild Anthology V2, by S. N. Behrman. To purchase the entire book, please order ISBN 1419181424.

Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for everyone!