Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Joan Miro, 40, was born in Barcelona, studied painting in his native city. That Artist Miro should get a better sense of shape and volume in his painting, his instructor made him draw from objects that he could only touch, blindfolded. About 15 years ago Joan Miro first appeared in the Paris art world, and in 1925 headed the most obscure group of modernists, the Surrealists. His early canvases were obscure enough, strange blobs of color against neutral backgrounds cut across by careening black lines...
Died. Francisco Macia y Llusa, 74, "The Grandfather," President of Catalonia; after an appendectomy; in Barcelona. After long years of ridicule and exile, he was chiefly responsible for Catalonia's present autonomy under the Spanish Republic. When the monarchy fell, he proclaimed a Catalan Republic five hours before Madrid did a Spanish Republic, revived the ancient Catalan Cortes, language and flag...
...Barcelona, Spain police arrested the husband and mother-in-law of the late Amelia Sangino, charged that Amelia Sangino, ailing, had been frightened to death when her mother-in-law dressed up as a ghost, hovered about her bed while her husband moaned in a room overhead...
Last year it occurred to the Mallorca police that there were "too many Americans" in Mallorca. They arrested U. S. Writer Robert Macalmon and Negro Tenor Roland Hayes for defying a local ordinance against boarding the daily boat to Barcelona to say good-by to friends. On the technical charge of not registering passports they arrested a U. S. woman who produces little plays in Palma, a man who edits a little U. S. newspaper. Still new waves of Americans swept over Mallorca...
...recognizes, and he put his sign manual to a paper, which, according to the Hearst Universal Service, gave him a settlement of $250,000 a year. Pleased Papa Franklyn Hutton gave the pair a yacht for a wedding present and they departed for a honeymoon in Venice, Biarritz and Barcelona before settling down to what Princess Barbara said would be "leisure...