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Painting Ghost. Prom the north of France had came a middle-aged coal miner, Augustin Lesage. In 1912, working as he had worked for 20 years far down in a black bowel of the earth, Augustin heard "voices," like those Joan of Arc declared called her, telling him to stop mining and go to draw and paint. Thinking himself feverish, he went home to bed, whence a power drove him to a city to buy complete painter's equipment, none of the names for which had Augustin ever before known. Back in his cottage, he painted-or rather...
Engaged. Mrs. Gwendolyn Whistler Haughton, widow of Percy D. Haughton, famed Harvard and Columbia football coach who died last fall, grandniece of the late James Abbott McNeill Whistler, famed painter, to Augustin H. Parker, Boston broker...
...difference 'between Ach, du lieber Augustin," he explains, "and any waltz tune composed from the middle of the 19th Century onwards is the dif ference between a piece of music al most devoid of any emotion and a piece of music deeply saturated with sentiment, languor and voluptuousness. The susceptible maiden who, when she hears Ach, du lieber Augustin, feels no emotion beyond one of general cheerfulness and high spirits, is fairly made to palpitate by the luscious strains of the modern waltz ; her soul is carried swooning along undulating oceans of molasses ; she can hardly breathe...
...Augustin Daly engaged Skinner to play in his famed company. The great manager is tenderly pictured in all his quaintness; his whims are described, his essentially city character and strong religious tendency. Mr. Skinner found himself associated with Ada Rehan, John Drew, James Lewis, Mrs. G. H. Gilbert. After a tour of the provinces, the company made a successful invasion of England, Germany, France...
...Library, Messrs. William Thomas '78 of San Francisco, Charles A. Coolidge '81 of Boston, Roger Wolcott '99 of Milton, Henry S. Van Duzer '75, and Clarence L. Hay '08 of New York, Henry S. Howe '69 of Brookline, Francis R. Hart and Charles H. Taylor '89 of Boston, Augustin H. Parker '97 of Charles River, William C. Lane '81, Librarian of the College Library, Harold Murdock H. '16, Director of the Harvard Press, and George P. Winship '93 of the Widener Memorial Library...