Word: fontainebleau
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...Peter D. Ouspensky, who bated his breath about a Wise Man, Georges Gurdjieff, who made learned philosophers look like chicken-soup. In the midst of his activities Editor Orage dropped everything, betook himself to the Wise Man's ''Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man" at Fontainebleau...
Subsidiary fiestas were held by the Spanish colonies in Mexico and Cuba. In Fontainebleau, Alfonso XIII & family spent the day playing golf, made no public remarks on the proceedings in Madrid...
Celebration of Maundy Thursday was not limited to King George. In the Vatican Pope Pius washed the feet of twelve foreign priests. Most Italian priests per: formed a pedilavium in their own dioceses. In Fontainebleau Alfonso XIII announced that for the first time since his coronation he would wash no feet. Said he: "Because I am on French soil, I will observe Easter in accordance with French customs, attending Church as a simple worshiper...
...little white house near the Forest of Fontainebleau an aged, paralytic blind-man has lain for months listening to the poems of Walt Whitman. Sometimes his wife would read them to him, sometimes young Eric Fenby, a Yorkshireman like himself. But it was always Whitman the blindman asked for, preferably the later poems written when Whitman was paralyzed, dying. In Queen's Hall, London, last week, a great crowd marveled at the Songs of Farewell which blind Frederick Delius had written for double choir and orchestra. The words were Whitman's: How sweet the silent backward tracings...
...mulatto carpet-bagger who became Acting Governor of Louisiana but was refused a U. S. Senate seat in 1876. After attending the University of Wisconsin. Jean Toomer became an exponent of Georges Gurdjieff, the Armenian-Greek cultist who founded the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man at Fontainebleau, France, and whose most famed disciple was the late Katherine Mansfield (TIME, March 24, 1930). Last autumn Disciple Toomer took a mixed party of eight, all white except himself, to a farmhouse outside Portage, birthplace of Novelist Latimer. She was one of the party. All slept in two rooms on cots...