Art: Worcester's Opening

Few people would think of making pilgrimage to Worcester, Mass. A grimy New England manufacturing town, it has a great many traffic lights, quick-lunchrooms and overhead trolley wires. Yet shepherded by none less than the newly created Joseph, Baron Duveen of Millbank, 150 critics, painters, art dealers, collectors, reporters, pressagents and others piled into a special train at New York's Grand Central Station last week bound for Worcester.

The occasion was the opening of the new $700,000 building of the Worcester Art Museum, designed by William T. Aldrich of Boston. Its...

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