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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Stocky, tousle-haired Pablo Ruiz Picasso looks like an extremely able Spanish mechanic, will be 50 years old on Oct. 23. He was born in Malaga in Andalusia,* the son of an Italian mother, a Spanish drawing-teacher father. From his earliest childhood it was understood that he was to be an artist. He lived successively in Barcelona, Madrid, finally Paris-always drawing. Paris became his spiritual as well as his physical home. Today it is as unfair to consider him simply a Spanish artist as it is to consider George Bernard Shaw an Irish dramatist...
...sympathetic" toward the carriers' plight and ready to speed up hearings on what promised to be its biggest case of the decade. At the earliest, however, no final decision was expected before autumn...
...farewell party for Guinan & Gang in Manhattan aboard the S. S. Paris.? This was the first, the only Guinan party at which there were no "suckers." No guest paid a cent. Guinan & Gang furnished mirth, French Line chefs a buffet supper. Curfew was at 2 a. m., earliest ever for a Guinan party. The Belmontized farewell had the effect of toning-up Guinan & Gang, but aboard the Paris her kids did a dance ("charity concert") in which each carried two fans. To the eyes of three clergymen passengers, who protested (afterward), it seemed that the fans were the kids...
...such as the late Arthur B. Davies, actors like Walter Hampden, Ruth Draper, Ethel Barrymore, and many a musician attended her formal, wineless soirees. By 1913 she was helping organize the historic exhibition in Manhattan's Squadron "A" Armory which introduced a continent to Modernism. One of the earliest collectors of modern paintings, in 1929 she was co-founder (with Mrs. John Davison Rockefeller and Mrs. Cornelius J. Sullivan) of the Museum of Modern Art, to which she bequeathed almost all that she had bought, pruned, guarded. A loan exhibition of her good friend and adviser Artist Davies hung...
...persons were admitted but freemasons initiated in the craft's mysteries, which included not only sure means of identification but technical secrets. Scottish and Irish lodges were formed, remain distinct type parents of lodges everywhere today. Minutes and "charges" to neophytes were written down, the date of the earliest preserved being approximately fixed...