Word: balthasar
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France was poor and the times were bad, but Catherine de Medici and her son King Henry III were throwing a royal wingding, and they were not a pair to pinch a franc. Catherine's valet de chambre, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, cooked up for the occasion a lavish combination of painting, music and dancing that is now rated as the first true ballet ever performed. The show began about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15, 1581 in the Grand Salle of the Hôtel du Petit Bourbon in Paris, and lasted until 3:30 in the morning...
...French Painter Balthus (Balthasar Klossowsky) offered a wicked portrait of his friend French Painter André Derain in his dressing gown one bilious morning-after-the-week-before...
...Born Balthasar Klossowsky, son of a Polish-French art critic, Balthus learned to paint without a teacher, put traditional methods immediately to his own uses. Since 1934, when the Balthus debut set Paris all agog, the artist has exhibited rarely. Last week's show was his first in the U. S. A slight, dark-haired man with a pale, pointed face and sharp eyes, Balthus is married to a Swiss girl, lives in a studio apartment on Paris' Cour de Rohan. He is a close friend of Author Andr éGide and, in spite of his frightening portrait...
...winds back into earliest antiquity. The Chaldean Empire was the world's first, established after the Deluge by King Nemrud, grandson of Noah. A prophecy of Christ's coming was made by Daniel in Babylon, the Chaldean Empire's capital. When Wise Men Melchior, Gaspar and Balthasar - Chaldeans all - returned from their expedition to Bethlehem, they became, according to tradition, the first group to spread the Gospel. The tongue in which the Chaldean Rite is still conducted is Chaldeo-Aramaic, which its adherents claim Christ spoke. One of the chief differences between the Chaldean Rite...
...Jockey John Gilbert of Pittsburg, Kans., on Balthasar: his 212th race of the year; at New Orleans. Enthusiasts who had been following the rivalry between...