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...Mannes Concerts have become a New York institution, attracted as many as 17,000 people to a single performance. Conductor Mannes has never ceased to boast that he "landed in the most beautiful building in the world." The son of a Polish furniture dealer, he was born 70 years ago in New York City. He was too poor to go to school more than four years, or to afford regular music lessons. From 13 onward, he fiddled at parties, skating rinks, theatres, a waxworks museum, learned English when he played for nothing at the old Union Square Theatre...
Artist Utrillo, born 53 years ago, is the illegitimate son of a onetime circus acrobat, Marie Suzanne Valadon, who at the age of 15 became a favorite nude model for Renoir, Puvis de Chavannes and Toulouse-Lautrec, later became a painter herself and is alive today, still painting, with a reputation nearly as great as that of her son. The father was an alcoholic, ill-tempered, untalented painter named Boissy. In 1888, when little Maurice was five, pretty Suzanne Valadon married a Paris importer named Paul Mousis, but M. Mousis refused to legitimize Maurice Valadon Boissy or give...
Months ago the Department of the Interior was proud to accept for Yosemite National Park Museum a collection of 108 paintings by the late Christian Jorgensen. the Norwegian-born artist largely responsible for the acquisition of Yosemite Valley as a National Park (TIME. Dec. 28). This week Manhattan's Newhouse Galleries opened an exhibition of 14 large landscapes, the first of a series of shows honoring the 100th Anniversary of a far better painter, directly responsible for the entire program of U. S. national parks: Thomas Moran...
Artist Thomas Moran. was born in Lancashire, England exactly 100 years ago this week. The son of a handloom weaver, he was brought to the U. S. at the age of seven. In Philadelphia, where his elder brother Edward, later famed as a marine painter, was already studying drawing, Thomas Moran was apprenticed to a wood engraver, very soon won a modest reputation for himself as a painter of mildly romantic landscapes. He studied in Europe, became heavily influenced by Turner's explosive sunsets, but Moran did not become a national figure until 1871, when the U. S. Geological...
...Fingrard calls Rudolph Duke, whom high-placed English backers of the treatment call J. J. Duke. The man supposedly died in Germany many years ago. Once he lived in Winnipeg where, says David Fingard, he developed the machine and drugs, and confided them to David, smart young New Jersey-born son of a Winnipeg coal dealer. The young man neglected to exploit the treatment for several years. First he tried his hand at insurance and stock brokering, grew baldish and portly during his efforts, dropped them to promote the Duke-Fingard Treatment in California, China and England, where he heard...