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Professor Haffner was born in Alsace. In 1908 he graduated from the Ecole des Beaux Arts in Paris and at that time became Architecte Diplome par le Gouvernment Francais. He served during the greater part of the War, was almost continually in the front line trenches until 1917, and in 1923 was awarded the Legion of Honor. In 1919 he won the Grand Prix de Rome and in 1921 was named Architecte des Batiments Civils...
...Averaging $5,000 apiece in price, all were the work of suave, spectacled Sculptor Boris Lovet-Lorski. At the same time word came from Paris that the Ministry of Fine Arts had decided to invest French taxpayers' money in two Lovet-Lorski pieces: a bronze nude for the Beaux Arts and a big, ivory marble head for the Musee du Luxembourg's foreign section...
...consequential than Scarlett's many falls from grace. The daughter of a successful Irish immigrant and a kindly, aristocratic mother, Scarlett was a handsome, high-spirited, high-bosomed, green-eyed little devil. Living the artificial life of a plantation beauty, she was accomplished at taking other girls' beaux away from them, breaking up engagements, winning flattery from men by the time she was 15. She fell in love with shadowy Ashley Wilkes, a cultured, sensitive spirit among the robust, hard-riding plantation aristocrats, primarily because she could not get him to pay much attention...
...draftsman in the office of one of the hundreds of fledging architectural firms which were building not by the house but by the mile, after the Chicago fire. At 18 he had passed, after six weeks' cramming, the rigorous entrance examinations of L'Ecole des Beaux-Arts in Paris. At 24 he was back in Chicago, a partner with Dankmar Adler in one of the rising firms of the West. Adler, the businessman, and Sullivan, the delicate-fingered designer, took as one of their first jobs what is still an extraordinary architectural achievement: Chicago's Auditorium, comprising...
...being an artist until at the age of 11 she suddenly began illustrating "The Owl and the Pussy-Cat." Father Bloch, delighted, bought her a paint box, later sent her to the Cleveland School of Art. In Europe she first studied sculpture with Antoine Bourdelle, then painted at the Beaux Arts, felt acutely uncomfortable with both. It was only when she went to Rome that she saw what she really wanted to do, in the gigantic frescoes of the Vatican and St. Peter...