ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHS
Four thousand photographs of members of all the royal families of "Europe, collected by Mrs. Thomas Broeklebnnk, now eighty years old, are to be left to England. Despite her great age, Mrs. Brocklebank spends her time between her two homes in London and Florence, adding constantly to her collection at the rate of between 100 and 200 a year. The collection fills scores of huge volumes. There is no other assembly of pictures like it in the world, for it includes also the family trees of its subjects. Mrs. Brocklebank began collecting 25 years ago in Florence because she was interested in the Medici family.
James Schilaci, of Buffalo, United States, is the most popular bai'ber in the town. He gives a glass of beer to everyone taking a haircut and shave,
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Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1933, Page 14
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134ROYAL PHOTOGRAPHS Evening Post, Volume CXVI, Issue 21, 25 July 1933, Page 14
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