At the New Opera of Marseille
The panel by Henry de Groux

Our excellent colleague Le Soleil wrote on the 5th: "Everyone agrees that the admirable panel by Henry de Groux: The Feast of Trymalcion, which decorates one of the corridors of the Municipal Opera, is placed in a deplorable manner. The immediate proximity of the wall, the lack of perspective in a narrow passage cluttered by the chairs and tables of the buffet, do not allow one to appreciate the merits of this beautiful work. It had been thought of protecting it from dangerous contact by a guardrail; but this barrier would have been powerless to preserve the panel from the public's reach. A more elegant solution to which Mr. Daladier, Minister of the Colonies, and our distinguished colleague Paul Grégorio, Secretary General of Comoedia, are no strangers, has just been adopted by the municipality: the panel will be moved and installed in the grand staircase; and, to give it a harmonious "pendant", a panel will be commissioned from the same artist. "Let us congratulate Comoedia for having taken an initiative whose consequences are all the credit of the minister and of Mr. Flaissières, the popular mayor of Marseille."