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...Paris' Salon d'Automne, two proper Baltimore sisters looked about them aghast. "Surely," said the older, "we are not expected to take this art seriously!" Even the painters -Matisse, Derain, Vlaminck, Rouault-were unknowns. It was 1905, and for the two Cone sisters. Dr. Claribel and Miss Etta, it was the year of their baptism into a new world...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tale of Two Sisters | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

Warmed by the enthusiasm of three expatriate Baltimore friends-Gertrude Stein and her brothers Leo and Michael -the Cone sisters were soon heads over heels in modern art. At Gertrude Stein's urging, Miss Etta traveled to Picasso's grubby Montmartre studio, picked up a handful of drawings for 100 francs. The sisters met young Matisse, started buying his work. They were off to a glowing start toward building their fabulous collection of modern French art, today valued...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Tale of Two Sisters | 2/14/1955 | See Source »

...JULI ETTA, translated by Alison Brothers (147 pp.; Messner; $3), is a contrasting companion piece from the same perfumed pen. It is a moony, brilliant bit of boy-meets-girlishness, more or less what might have happened if Stendhal had been writing for Sam Goldwyn. The ideal cast: Gary Grant, Gene Tierney and Audrey Hepburn. The plot: Tierney, a high-fashion cutie, comes for a visit at the country house of Grant, her fiancé. No sooner has she arrived than Grant discovers that Hepburn, a runaway adolescent, has parked herself on his premises. Sure that Tierney...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Mixed Fiction, Oct. 11, 1954 | 10/11/1954 | See Source »

Last May, Mrs. Etta Dana gave $100,000 for the establishment of a Myer and Etta Dana Scholarship and Aid Fund...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Dana Family Enlarges $100,000 Donation to Medical School Fund | 2/6/1954 | See Source »

...fund was established by Mrs. Etta Dana, widow of the late Myer Dana, ex-director of several Boston Jewish organizations...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: University Gets Fund For New Scholarships | 5/22/1953 | See Source »

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