Greater than Rembrandt
Sir Charles Higham, rich British British advertising expert, arrived in Manhattan last week in the interests of the India Tea Growers to stimulate tea-drinking in the U.S. To the ship reporter who met him, he amiably talked about painting, discussed the work of Alfred E. Orr, young U.S. painter, whom he financed. "Orr looks like a greater man than Rembrandt," Sir Charles remarked; said that he had rented for the painter the studio of the late John Singer Sargent, No. 31 Tite Street, Chelsea; told...
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