Word: artes
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Next morning, motoring to Germany with William F. Rueff, U. S. art student resident in Munich, a young British journalist and a Sudeten German deputy in the Czech Parliament, Unity's car was brought to a halt by military police in a military area...
...died August 23, 1926, in New York, as Rudolph Valentino. Last and best Valentino picture-a sequel to the one which had made his reputation five years before -was The Son of the Sheik, which grossed $2,500,000 after his death. Last year, Producer Joe Schenck's Art Cinema Corporation, which made the picture, sold the negative, along with some 30 other old cinema scraps, to an alert entrepreneur named Emil Jensen. Wary Mr. Jensen began operations by trying out The Son of the Sheik in Washington. When it broke all house records, he decided to invest...
When Joseph Edward Davies was Ambassador to Russia, Embassy living quarters in Moscow gradually filled up with Russian paintings. An art-loving Embassy clerk who had been stalking a painting for six months, saving up money to buy it, eventually found it hanging in one of the Davies' 13 bathrooms. Last week, if the clerk happened to be in Madison, Wis., he would have searched for it in more public quarters on the University of Wisconsin campus. The gift of Ambassador Davies to his alma mater last year (TIME, May 31, 1937), it formed part of a collection...
Highlights in the program, will be Louis De Flores, World Champion Paper Strafer, who will given an exhibition of his art, and Frank Hawks, renowned pilot will demonstrate the new Gwinn Air Car which is an airplane with controls like an automobile...
...progressive Lincoln School, Never to Die owes its material to the labors of several generations of archeologists and translators, principally University of Chicago's late, great Professor James H. Breasted. Unique merit of the book is not in its outline of Egyptian history or its use of Egyptian art but in its presentation of the limpidly human chronicles, hymns, love poems, adages, medical prescriptions and fairy tales which make up the world's oldest written literature. A proverb: "If thou art a guest at the table of one who is greater than thou, take what he may offer...