new, down-to-earth system of education against the background of his paintings.
But if you suppose that he would throw open his gallery to the masses so that they could brighten their workaday existence by communing with art and beauty, you are wrong; such consistency is for less imaginative men. The general public is strictly barred from the Barnes Foundation.
Celebrities occupy a position immediately below Social Registerites on Barnes' list of those who never would be missed. And what he does to celebrities is illustrated by what he did to the colossus himself, Alexander Woollcott. It happened when that popular merchant of cyanide and sirup came to Philadelphia in the guise of an actor in The Man Who Came to Dinner, a play based upon the life and insults of Alexander Woollcott.
Offstage during that visit Woollcott played The Man Who Came to Philadelphia, his boyhood home. He did not go to a hotel as other actors do, but took a house in Rittenhouse
