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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Falange Española (Spanish Phalanx) which did not win a single Cortes seat in the election. Its chief is the handsome, 34-year-old lawyer-son of Spain's famed Dictator under the monarchy, the late General Primo de Rivera. Eldest of a hot-headed trio of born troublemakers, José Antonio Primo de Rivera was closeted with Adolf Hitler shortly before Germany's 1934 Blood Purge, returned to Spain in time to lead his blue-shirted pistoleros against Spain's October 1934 Revolution of the Left...
...means is Crown Prince Umberto one of the many Italian aristocrats who have rushed to the war in Ethiopia. Amid nationwide furor last week his wife, Belgian-born Crown Princess Marie-José, showed where she stands by engaging passage to sail for Ethiopia as a Red Cross nurse this week...
Hook-nosed Paul Gauguin, half Peruvian, was born in Paris, spent part of his childhood in the Andes. After brief schooling at a Jesuit seminary in Orléans, he ran away to sea. Chastened by that experience, he returned to Paris, married a Danish woman, did quite well for himself as a stockbroker. On Sundays Broker Gauguin got the smell of counting houses out of his nose by going into the suburbs, painting landscapes. On these trips he met and made friends with Impressionists Claude Monet and Camille Pissarro. In 1887 he suddenly deserted wife, family and the stock...
...award of the $200 Hallgarten Prize "for the best oil painting by a citizen under 35," to Maurice Blumenfeld for a gloomy Daumieresque canvas of three cadaverous men hunched over a table, bolting soup. Citizen Blumenfeld turned out to be a 17-year-old Brooklyn high-school graduate. Though born in France of Russian parents, he was technically eligible to receive the prize since his father has become a naturalized U. S. citizen...
...judges awarded four instead of the usual two Altman prizes to U. S.-born citizens. Most important of the Altman prizes ($700) went to Sidney E. Dickinson, conservative portraitist and onetime art instructor, for a curious canvas entitled The Pale Rider. Apparently having listened to much talk about surrealism, Artist Dickinson did a picture of a morose young woman in a red dress seated on a falling, pedestal by a table loaded with books. A Negro in a grey flannel shirt is pulling a heavy tarpaulin over the whole composition while three white roses fall from the sky. The Pale...