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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...oldfashioned, shrewd critics observed its prize-winning attributes-size, arresting subject matter, the "important-work" appearance of a tour de force. Felice Carena, little known in the U. S., is an officially recognized painter in Italy, an instructor in Florence's Academia di Belle Arte. He was born in Turin in 1880 and studied largely by himself. His painting has traversed the usual "periods," Romantic, Classic, Modern. The Studio, though recent, gives little hint of his later manner. First prize at Carnegie is $1,500. But this year a special prize of $2,000 was donated by Albert Carl...
...Lynn, Mass., one Francis Joseph Whitehead was born with two ring-fingers on each hand...
...Napoleon, less tightly woven than the author's previous book on the same idol, distinguishes itself from the mass of Napoleonic lives by disclosing a secret. Secret of the Napoleonic will-to-power, reveals Biographer Merezhkovsky, was its isolation, its "islandness." On an island (Corsica) Napoleon was born; on another (St. Helena) he died. Small Napoleon would pull down all his room's shades, pretend he was "away." He retired from battles, not actually, but "in that strange, magnetic sleep. . . ." In his colossal power...
...Indians liked to meet and barter on the site of Canada's second largest city, called it "Toronto" or "Place of Meeting." Here Laborite MacDonald met the American Federation of Labor (see p. 14), raised a cheer by calling himself "still the old workman that I was born." In the afternoon he signed the Golden Book of the Rockefeller-gifted University of Toronto, received the crimson hood of an honorary LL.D. At lunch in the Men's Canadian Club he said: "Unless we can preserve the bond of reverence between us [Great Britain and the Dominions] nothing else...
Emma Redell (born in Baltimore, reared in Washington) has been described in the news recently as a "daring blonde girl" who ran away from home eight years ago and worked her way to Europe as a stewardess. Expecting a spirited, sprightly creature, her first audience was surprised to see an unusually large woman make a stolid entrance on the Carnegie Hall stage, to hear her sing in a strong, silken voice a recital which was consistently dull...