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...defend outlying possessions. Despoiled 18th Century Venice survived on the remnants of its great traders' fortunes, and the city slowly, deliberately died, as Austria's Vienna dies today. In this cemetery of old magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show of the Venetian painters who made Venice's twilight tolerable...
...Bretonne, Alexandre de Tilly, Hugo and others to its modern representative in Marcel Proust. Restif, "the gutter Rousseau," wrote the 18th Century equivalent of True Confession stories, carried Rousseau's ideas to the logical absurdity of idealizing prostitution. A more impressive figure, Tilly was a minor Casanova in the period after the Revolution, left a volume of memoirs that have only recently been translated. Tilly fled to Philadelphia, where he ingratiated himself with the wealthy Bingham and Baring families, married a 15-year-old Bingham heiress, received ?5,000 cash and ?500 yearly to divorce her. With more modern...
...recall, the story revolves about the biography in the making of Marion Forsythe. (Ann Harding), the self-styled "female Casanova" and "institution" in the eyes of the American people. Editor Richard Kurt (Robert Montgomery) contracts this lurid tale for his magazine and then proceeds to fall in love with the writer, though she represents all the tolerant decadence of the society which he is fighting. A bombastic Senator with the heart of a child (Edward Everett Horton to us, "Bunny" to Marion) and an athletic publisher, Bernarr McFadden in caricature, would prevent the diary's publication. Marion might recall some...
...obituaries were taken mostly from Tellegen's confessions, Women Have Been Kind. Tellegen's wives were: 1) Countess Jeanne de Brockere; 2) Geraldine Farrar; 3) Isabelle Craven Dilworth (screen name: Nina Romano); 4) Actress Eve Casanova...
...French club has an exceptions kicker in Victor Casanova, while the return of Jose Mayoraga and vie Raring former football star will strengilien the Harvard lineup. The game on the best exhibitions of light play ver seen at Cambridge...