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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...First National $464,000,000 Chase National...
...Film. Under contract to First National pictures are Cinemactors Richard Barthelmess, Jack Buchanan, Cinemactresses Marilyn Miller, Colleen Moore. Irene Bordoni. Last week they heard that Warner Brothers, previously jointly controlling First National with the Fox Film Corp., had bought the Fox holding for $10,000,000. Reason given by Cineman Fox for the sale was that First National Pictures are silent, that Fox Film Corp. intends producing only sound pictures...
...Rochester (N. Y.) Philharmonic under Conductor Eugene Goossens gave the first of eleven concerts. This year it is coexistent with a Civic Orchestra, planned last year to provide employment for Eastman Theatre musicians when that theatre was leased to Publix Corp. The new orchestra, composed of 50 players (nucleus of the Philharmonic), financed by 10,000 Rochesterians, has begun a season of 75 concerts, 32 of which will be given free during schooltime to public and parochial students, 32 on Sunday afternoons with small admission charges...
...family as "a man of vast and disorderly culture" and a descendant of Philosopher Spinoza, Amedeo grew up, studious, passionate, grave. When he was 14 he had typhoid fever and in his delirium raved about the Renaissance, his longing to become a painter. This was the first indication of his esthetic bent. His mother, impressed, promised that he should go to art school. In 1906 after a few years of study with mediocre landscapists, Modigliani went to Paris where he was described as a "serious looking student who read Dante and lived alone." This solitude was short lived. Paris studios...
Last week in Manhattan the first one-man show of Modigliani was held. Among the 37 canvases, mostly portraits of his Paris friends, was one of his earliest heads and his last canvas, a large nude. Also shown was his last palette and a death mask taken in the hospital by his friends, the painter Kisling and the sculptor Lipshitz. It reveals a small ascetic face with sunken eyes, a very thin nose...