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...Founder Benito Mussolini of the Royal Italian Academy was indirectly rebuked with the contemptuous words: "A thoroughbred horse cannot share a stable with asses!" when he invited Poet-Prince Gabriele d'Annunzio to become an Academician. In the eleven years since then Gabriele and Benito have drawn somewhat closer, d'Annunzio telegraphing to Il Duce when the Dictator was resisting Sanctions: "DO NOT SOIL YOURSELF AT THE FOUL-SMELLING SEWER IN GENEVA STOP REMAIN IMMOVABLE IN CONTROL OF YOUR PLACID HILARITY." Last week d'Annunzio agreed happily to become Ass No. 1, succeeding the late great President...
...great academician, Pope had been president of the American Academy in Rome since 1933. An amiable and elegant gentleman, he lived in Newport in a low, rambling mansion which he designed and called "The Weaves." The afternoon of his daughter Jane's party in 1933 he amazed swank Newport by opening his house to the public...
Quietly elected to the Court also last week was its onetime Clerk, Swedish Academician Knut Hjalmar Leonard Hammarskjold. Elected with eclat was the distinguished Chinese Supreme Court jurist...
...great number of hunting scenes, the usual Spring in Cornwall, this time by the Academy's first and only full-fledged female member, Laura Knight, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It had an extraordinary supply of studies of English bars, the Academician's favorite resource when he wants to get down to life in the raw. Even the nudes were all thoroughly English, blonde, straight, healthy, respectable...
Minor suspense developed before the opening over whether Academician Gerald Festus Kelly would submit the customary portrait of his wife, Jane. Three years ago he broke off the series of Janes because they had become an Academy joke, promised this year to prove his versatility by submitting a portrait of Eton's provost, Dr. Montague Rhodes James. Dr. James fell ill and Artist Kelly ended by submitting another Jane, this time in a blue 18th Century gown...