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...courage to let him go. When stolid daughter Miranda, in mute rebellion against her mother's beauty, proposes to marry a mincing dressmaker, Ruby pulls together all her resources and prods Miranda into a decent marriage with a likable young man with the imposing name of James Edouard Goethe de Bas-Pouilly. The implication of the story seems to be that Ruby alone of her indolent set has salvaged something by helping to set her daughter right. But this implication is not likely to strike anyone very forcefully amid the mountains of irrelevant society chatter which Novelist Bagnold...
...prizes, $3,750 each, went to Fred Conway of St. Louis and France's Edouard Goerg, for pictures that most critics thought inferior. Goerg's Nativity with Birds was as stickily sweet as creme de menthe and appeared to have been sloshed on with a spoon. It did, however, look like something that people would buy in a Christmas card. Conway's Mother and Child lacked even that advantage; it was an all-but-indecipherable tangle of syrupy colors and tricky, scratch-and-patch textures without visible sentiment of any kind. Conway, who golfs about as well...
Geometry & Assurance. For delicate tastes there were the smaller, cooler and more careful paintings of France's top second-rankers, including Pierre Tal-Coat (44), Andre Marchand (42), Francis Tailleux (36) and Edouard Pignon (44), who unabashedly follow Picasso's and Matisse's lead and do it well. If their geometrized landscapes and still lifes said nothing very new, they at least spoke with assurance. Originality, they could reasonably argue, is less important than mastery...
...meeting started ten minutes late. (Some people thought it was really ten years late, or ten centuries.) In a solemn procession led by parliamentary messengers, who looked like headwaiters except for their chains of office, walked France's mastiff-faced Edouard Herriot. He climbed the rostrum, opened the Consultative Assembly of the Council of Europe...
Died. Baron Edouard de Rothschild, 81, titular head of the fourth generation of the House of Rothschild; in Paris. One of the world's wealthiest bankers (in 1935 his personal fortune was estimated at $55 million), Baron Rothschild lost his property to the Pétain government in 1940 when he and his wife fled to the U.S. (they managed to get out with $1,000,000 in jewels...