Word: demuth
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Last week, 15 years after the death of Charles Demuth, Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art got around to giving him a big exhibition. The 168 paintings and drawings on display proved the Lancaster, Pa. tobacconist's boy to have been among the nation's top moderns. In his lifetime Demuth was much admired by a small circle of artists, critics and collectors. But Demuth (rhymes with see tooth) never made much of a dent on the public...
Last week, in a new addition to the slender list of Franck biographies (Cesar Franck; Philosophical Library, $4.75), British Critic Norman Demuth told a good deal about the composer. He also told a little-unfortunately only a little-about amiable, warmhearted Cesar Franck himself...
...while the streets of Paris were barricaded by revolutionists, the young composer-organist got married. His actress-wife tried to liven him up a bit, teach him dancing, take him to the theater. But, writes Biographer Demuth, "Franck slept through all the performances, remarking that they were a waste of time otherwise." His tastes led more in the direction of the opera bouffe "and he delighted in Offenbach because he said that the operas made him laugh...
Perched on a hillside amid drab housing projects and crumbling Victorian relics, lies London's cluttered Highgate Cemetery. There, in a single grave rest the remains of a onetime 19th Century German beauty, Jenny von Westphalen, her grandson Harry Longuet, her servant girl Helene Demuth and her famed husband Karl Marx. Now & then a Communist or Socialist deputation stops by to pay its respects and leave behind a wreath. Otherwise the grave of the man whom both Communists and Socialists claim as their spiritual father is neglected and weed-grown. Its official custodian, another Marx grandson named Edgar Longuet...