Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Cadafalch is a great step for the University. The importance of this versatile Spaniard is shown by the statement of Professor A. Kingsley Porter, Professor of Fine Arts, who declared yesterday: "Puig, I Cadafalch, architect, archaeologist, statesman, and writer, was for many years president of the Mancumanitat in Barcelona, where he took active part in political questions of the day. He was also one of the leading spirits in building up the Institute of Catalan Studies, Which has become an exceedingly important centre for research, especially in artistic and archaeological fields...
...architect of great distinction, having erected notable buildings in various parts of Spain and South America, as well as in Barcelona. Puig I Cadafalch was in charge of the buildings for the International Exposition...
...birthplace, Dublin, Ernest Boyd had no large part in the Irish literary renaissance but came well under its influence. He was on the editorial staff of the Irish Times for three years, married in 1913 (an able Frenchwoman) and entered the British Consular Service. After moving from Baltimore to Barcelona to Copenhagen, he returned to the U. S. in 1920, having vigorously continued his literary studies the while. Of late years, besides his omnivorous reading and a steady stream of magazine articles, book reviews and advice to Publisher Alfred A. Knopf on European literature, he has found time to complete...
...presenting two artists who give place to none in the position they hold in the eyes of the public. First came Anna Pavlowa, for a "farewell season." The instrument of her return was a ballet based on Cervantes' Don Quixote, Mme. Pavlowa taking the dual role of the Barcelona innkeeper's daughter and Dulcinea del Toboso. When she made her initial entrance among more than 80 other performers, she was at once recognized; and the Manhattan audience shook with enthusiastic applause for five minutes...
...longer will it be necessary for admirers of this eminent painter's queer, gnarled and gnomish trees and ladies in old-fashioned caps and flounces, to seek his work in the Luxembourg Museum in Paris, the Tate Gallery (London), the Municipal Collections of Vienna and Barcelona. They may be found wherever soap is likely to be sold or advertised...