Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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PERPIGNAN, France-Spanish Frontier--The Loyalist Defense Ministry announced tonight at Barcelona that a train bearing 320 American "volunteers," demobilized from the Loyalist army, had been bombed twice by Insurgent planes between Pulgeerda and the French border...
First reports of a devastating fire in one of the many Leftist munitions plants established in Barcelona's suburbs leaked out of Spain last week through Perpignan, France. The fire and the resulting explosions were said to have killed 400 persons. Many workmen, thinking an air raid was on, took refuge in the plant's basement, where they were smothered. There was a hint that a Rightist espionage agent had been responsible for a telling blow to the Leftist munitions supply. Another version was that a careless laborer simply dropped an explosive shell...
...Staircase) and his friend Francis Picabia. Picabia, born in Paris in 1878 of a French mother and a Spanish father, began exhibiting landscapes in Paris in 1894, enjoyed official successes and easy sales until 1913, when he got fed up with success. Moving first to Manhattan, then to Barcelona, finally to Paris in 1920, Picabia poured out bucketfuls of Dada, including his noted Portrait of Cézanne, Portrait of Rembrandt, Portrait of Renoir, Still Lives (all this consisting of a stuffed monkey mounted on a board...
Some characters are called by their real names. Puig was a Barcelona anarchist killed early in the Civil War; Captain Hernández was actually in command at Toledo. Others are thinly disguised: Abel Guidez is called Gardet in the novel; Ramón Sender, leading Spanish novelist, is the original of Manuel...
This week, while Man's Hope was being published in Manhattan, Malraux was celebrating his 37th birthday, living at the Hotel Ritz in Barcelona. He has been working with Cameraman Louis Page, who filmed Carnival in Flanders, directing a film of the Civil War, based in part on Man's Hope and intended largely for South American audiences. Now separated from his wife, Malraux still holds his publishing job, spends less time in Paris than ever, has few intimates outside a family circle consisting of himself, two halfbrothers, Claude and Roland, his stepmother...