Word: 16th
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Archibald T. Davison, Professor of Music will broadcast a lecture on "Italian and English Madrigals of the 16th Century" over station WIXAL tonight at 8 o'clock...
...work of a dark-haired, dark-eyed pianist who took part in last Sunday's opener-Hortense Monath, 29. In her native Newark, N. J., Hortense Monath took slight interest in piano practice until she was twelve, was not much keener about it until, on her 16th birthday, she heard Schnabel play. Then, she says, "I grew up in one day." Schnabel, who had learned Latin from her father, took Pianist Monath as pupil, still coaches her although she made her Manhattan debut five years...
Examples are shown of the types of work made famous by the Aldine bindery of Venice which in the 16th century popularized the eastern art of gilding the leather tooling of fine bindings. Also included are examples of the famous geometric style of book decoration fostered by Jean Grolier, French nobleman of the 16th century, whose library of 8,000 volumes was reputed to be the finest private collection of his day. Among the artisans represented are LeGascon, 17th century French binder; and Roger Payne, famous 18th century British book designer...
...lover although partially blind for several years, purchased three "old masters" to add to his collection in Kennebunkport, Me.; Sibylla Of Tibur Before Emperor Augustus, by Jan de Beer; Portrait of an Author, by Jacopo Pontormo; Menaud d'Aure, Viscount d' Aster, by an anonymous 16th Century Frenchman. Simultaneously, he finished a novel on connoisseurs and art dealers...
...16th birthday. Crown Prince Michael of Rumania was ceremoniously inducted into the Rumanian Army, of which he was titular commander-in-chief years ago when his father, buck-toothed King Carol II, was in exile. Witnesses of the ceremony were Crown Prince Gustaf Adolf of Sweden and Prince Regent Paul of Yugoslavia. Among the gifts was a sleek Rolls-Royce sent by the Duke of Kent...