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...museum was made possible through the munificence of an indefatigable museum founder, tall Archer Milton Huntington, son of Railroad Builder Collis Potter Huntington. Archer Huntington insists that his real hobby is Hispanic studies, not founding museums. He has written several travel books on Spain, translated the epic of the Cid Campeador, introduced Artists Zuloaga and Sorolla to the U. S. Less successfully last winter he sponsored one Cesáreo Bernaldo de Quirós. Argentine illustrator (TIME, March...
...second wife, 56-year-old Anna Hyatt Huntington, is the daughter of Zoologist Alpheus Hyatt. She is a Chevalier of the Legion of Honor and a sculptor fully equal in ability to Mrs. Harry Payne Whitney. A pupil of Gutzon Borglum, she designed a huge equestrian statue of the Cid in action for her husband's Hispanic Museum, but specializes in lions and Joans of Arc. Her best known Joan, that on Manhattan's Riverside Drive, shows the Maid standing in her stirrups with sword raised. Other Anna Huntington Joans have been erected at Gloucester, Mass., Blois, France...
...without the North Atlantic seaboard and California. Yet last week the Republican Government at Madrid signed away most of its control over Catalonia which contains the country's largest, most modern city, Barcelona. In Madrid the Cortes, 172 to 12, passed a Constitutional amendment presented by Deputy Zorilla Cid (who claims descent from El Cid*) granting governmental autonomy to Catalonia. Most of the 470 deputies preferred to stay at home...
...Spain's favorite national hero whose legendary exploits are celebrated in the Poem a del Cid, oldest Spanish epic (12th Century). Named Rodrigo Diaz de Bivar, he was called El Cid ("the lord...
...Ganne 2. Euryanthe Overture Weber 3. H. Symphony, allegretto schetzando Beethoven 4. Swan Lake, Suite Intermission Tchaikowsky 5. Pacific 2-3-1, Symphonic movement Honegger 6. Valse Triste Sibelius 7. First Hungarian Rhapsody Intermission Liszt 8. Roses from the South, waltz Strauss 9. Humoresque Dvorak 10. Aragonaise, from the "Cid" Massenet