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...Academy of Design, where he went for two-and-a-half years when young, purely to stall off a career, Artist Steig got all his fun playing football in the back yard. The dead hand of the academy certainly guided none of his carving. Longest job was the woeful Guitarist-two weeks; shortest was the Sequinned Lady-two days. School Girl is a bit African around the eyes, but Man at a Gathering is straight Steig. In general he wanted to make figures that would not "seem out of place in the cabbage fumes of apartment houses." Last week...
...they had carried Catalonia off by herself on the political loose. Zealots plastered up everywhere manifestoes reading PRIVATE PROPERTY IS CONFISCATED AND COLLECTIVIZED! This meant that doors of wealthy and middle class homes were burst in by plundering Barcelona crowds. Ahead of them fled such terrified Spaniards as famed Guitarist Andres Segovia and his wife who were obliged to leave behind her jewels and his children by a previous marriage...
...Ambassador de Madariaga counts among his intimate friends Andres Segovia, the concert guitarist, and Dhan Gopal Mukerji, Hindu rebutter to Mother India. He is, moreover, one of those writers who has enjoyed the hospitality of Mr. & Mrs. Thomas William Lament...
...Grandfather Millet. To Artist Cazeau's canvases Grandson Millet then affixed his grandfather's initials. In Paris he discovered one Rudolfo Perez y Montalbo playing a guitar on the streets. Impressed by the man's name and aspect, Grandson Millet pressed him into_ service as a connoisseur. The guitarist's job was to attest solemnly, wordily that the works of Cazeau were, in truth, the works of "that luminous master of the Barbizon school?Jean Francois Millet...
...immune from box office inflation or deflation. Of this an outstanding example is Efrem Zimbalist* who, while not drawing the Kreisler crowds, is considered an almost perfect violinist. Others for whose talents there is a steady demand are Pianists Harold Bauer, Alfred Cortot, Ossip Gabrilowitsch, 'Cellist Pablo Casals, Guitarist Andres Segovia, Violinist Albert Spalding...