By Mike Pryce
The divine Sarah Siddons. Worcester educated, she died in 1831 in London and more than 5,000 attended her funeral HAD the Beatles pitched up in Worcester in 1763 – unlikely I know – they still wouldn’t have found a decent auditorium. The city has long lacked one. As it was, when they came twice in 1963, they had to make do with the stage of the Gaumont cinema, which was a bit better than the wooden shed they’d have been offered 200 years before. In the 18th century few places had a theatre that wasn’t a barn or some other impoverished property. At Worcester, the performing arts were staged in a wooden building in the yard of the King’s Head Inn, opposite the Guildhall in High Street.
Lisa Benson for May 12, 2021
May 07, 2021
Liz Cheney and Mitt R-money are true conservatives, not phony Trumpubli
Qans.
Both are heirs to political dynasties what should be Republican royalty who grew up in political families, nurtured on conservative political philosophies from before they could eat solid food.
Liz Cheney is the daughter of war monger Dick Cheney, who at least stood up for the right to vote and, as vice president in 2009, certified the election of Barack Obama, though he rewards allies by shooting them in the face on hunting trips (shooting tame, caged animals) after getting loaded on beers and then making them apologize to him. Liz, not Trump, is the true conservative.
Samuel Pepys Cockerell collection to be offered for sale
The Arch of Titus at Rome looking towards the capital (lot 56) by Frederick Lee Bridell (1831-1863). Estimate £20,000-£30,000.
LONDON
.-Dreweatts will present a group of works directly from the family of the British artist Samuel Pepys Cockerell (1844-1921). The works are coming to auction for the first time since leaving the artist s family collection and will be offered in Dreweatts upcoming Old Master, British and European Art sale on May 27, 2021.
The collection is led by a stunning portrait of Cockerell, by George Frederick Watts (1817-1904) one of the leading portrait and Symbolist painters of the late 19th Century, known as `Englands Michelangelo.