Art: Hearty Hals

Red-eyed and reformed, the wealthier husbands of Detroit sifted back from the New York Automobile Show last week full of new orders and bicarbonate of soda. Meanwhile Dr. Wilhelm Reinhold Valentiner had done his best to entertain their wives. At the Detroit Institute of Arts of which he has been director for eleven years, Dr. Valentiner opened the largest, most important exhibition of the work of Frans Hals ever held in the U. S. Of some 300 known paintings by that hearty old Dutchman, about 80 are in the U. S. Fifty of these...

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