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Esthete. In his polished culture and finely developed artistic tastes Prince Paul is a far cry from his peasant ancestor Karageorge who started the family career upward as an apprentice to a Turkish brigand. Of nine rulers in Belgrade in the last century only three died natural deaths at their posts. King Alexander I, assassinated in Marseille by Croatian zealots in 1934 was Paul's first cousin. Alexander's son, the present King Peter, is thus a first cousin once removed of Prince Paul...
There is a large sprinkling of foreign works, principally from Spain, Italy, Germany, France, and Russia. A first edition is shown of "Max und Moritz," which is the ancestor of the modern comic strip and which has its modern counterpart in the "Katzenjammer Kids" and "The Captain and the Kids," Represented by three editions is "Slovenly Peter," the most popular children's book ever written, with over 8,000,000 copies turned out thus far. Original drawings are shown for the "Mr. Rabbit and Mr. Bear" stories of Uncle Remus, whose real name was A. B. Frost...
...number of elaborately carved wooden ancestor images from the island of Nias, near the coast of Sumatra, are now in the possession of the Museum along with gifts and loans from every corner of the world...
...proved a great success (TIME, Aug. 2, 1937). At Nürnberg last month, Realmleader Hitler, having awarded Nazi Culture Prizes No. 1 and No. 2 to Warplane Designers Heinkel and Messerschmitt, surpassed himself as an esthetician with a new pronunciamento on German art. Now, said he. "the true ancestor of German art is Greek art of the golden age; the Greeks were a Northern people run aground on a Southern land...
Despite the burden of versatility, Churchill has succeeded in writing one impressive work: a six-volume biography of his famous Whig ancestor, John Churchill, first Duke of Marlborough, the English Napoleon. The last volume, published last week, is perhaps the most interesting, is also the volume in which Author Churchill had to wage his stoutest defense...