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...outline, the story of Pierre-Augustin Caron, afterward known as the French dramatist Beaumarchais. was typical of the ambitious, unscrupulous men of his age. He belonged in the ranks of those international adventurers and quick-change artists who floated around Europe in the days before the French Revolution, men of talent too restless to be content with their humble stations, too enlightened to accept the prevailing beliefs of their class, too adroit not to squeeze through the crevices that appeared when the social structure began splitting apart. But Beaumarchais' life had one distinction which was lacking in the careers...
...included 18 miniatures by Jean & François Clouet; 75 by the 18th Century's master miniaturist, Jean Baptiste Jacques Augustin; 56 by the British master, Richard Cosway; and one called Group of Five Persons in a Landscape said to be the only miniature ever painted by Jean Antoine Watteau. Prize of the collection is The Armada Jewel, a minuscule painting sent by Queen Elizabeth to Sir Francis Walsingham, Chancellor of the Duchy of Lancaster, for his help in outfitting the English fleet that defeated Spain. The jewel's face bears a gold relief profile bust...
...banged out a 21-gun salute and all craft in sight broke out bunting. Through the bright spring morning air sounded the bells of Buenos Aires' 103 churches. Shore batteries rumbled through another long salute and Cardinal Pacelli was welcomed off his ship by Argentina's President Augustin P. Justo. Escorted in a coach through four miles of people-packed streets, Cardinal Pacelli stopped briefly in the Cathedral. Then he went to the sumptuous mansion of the Countess of Olmo, Argentina's richest woman landowner. There he occupied an austere apartment, containing, at his request, the minimum...
...artists for the program will be Augustin O. Allen 3G, 'cello, Malcolm Holmes, violin, and Frank W. Ramseyer, piano. Mr. Holmes conducts the Pierian Sodality, while Mr. Ramseyer is an instructor in the music department...
...string trio consisting of Malcolm Holmes, violinist, Augustin Allen, 'cellist; and Frank Ramseyer, pianist will play a group of selections Sunday evening, December 10, at Lowell House...