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...Barrier; 1912-Gene Stratton Porter's The Harvester; 1914-Eleanor H. Porter's Polly anna. 1916-Booth Tarkington's Seventeen. Harold Bell Wright's When a Man's a Man; 1917-H. G. Wells's Mr. Britling Sees It Through; 1919-V. Blasco Ibáñez's The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse, Henry Adams' The Education of Henry Adams; 1921-Sinclair Lewis' Main Street; 1922-A. S. M. Hutchinson's If Winter Comes; 1923-Gertrude Ather-ton's Black Oxen; 1924-Edna Ferber...
Blood and Sand (20th Century-Fox). As Novelist Vicente Blasco Ibanez described him, Juan Gallardo was a matador who believed that bulls and women were created for the sole purpose of giving him glory and pleasure. A poor boy who came up the hard way, he was the idol of Spain's bull rings and boudoirs until a disrespectful bull punctured his vast ego with a well-directed horn. He died bitterly within the sound of the fight fans acclaiming their new hero of the afternoon...
Dean Cornwell (47), learned illustration under Pyle-Pupil Harvey Dunn and about 1916 got a free hand from the late Editor Ray Long to become Red Book's (later Cosmopolitan's) pride and joy. His illustrations for such fictioneers as Blasco Ibanez, E. M. Hull, Arthur Somers Roche and Somerset Maugham were as exotically escapist as the tales themselves, and his studio became famous for its clutter of authentic props. In 1922 tall, enthusiastic, travel-loving Artist Cornwell went to London to work with Frank Brangwyn, has since incorporated that decorator's style with...
However, if the father of Pablo Picasso was, as you report, Blasco Ruiz and his mother's name was Maria Picasso, then his name would have been Pablo Ruiz y Picasso which will explain why he is known by his mother's name. Now, if he had been born out of wedlock, his name would have been Pablo Picasso, and his father's name would not have appeared in his name...
...over 30 years Eduardo Barriobero was a Clarence Darrow of Spain. Brilliant, provocative, radical, he pleaded many a completely hopeless case and was never happier than when he had a political martyr to defend. Violently anticlerical and stanchly antimonarchist, he could have stepped right out of a Blasco Ibañez novel. He was such an individualist that no pat modern political name-calling would fit him, no government could have suited him. More a syndicalist than anything else, he belonged to the fast dwindling group of Spanish Federalists...