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Frans Hals, born in Antwerp about 1584, was 20 years older than the great Rembrandt van Rijn whom he scarcely knew. He married twice, produced 14 children and a mass of canvases, but had on the whole, almost as dull an existence as the stolid, rich little city of Haarlem in which he spent most of his life. His talent was early recognized. He worked very hard, made a great deal of money, kept little of it. Because of his fondness for painting guzzling guitar players, beery burghers, laughing children, biographers have endeavored to make the domestic hard-working Frans...
Falling safety bars at a railway crossing between Amsterdam and Haarlem struck an automobile bearing ex-Kaiser Wilhelm. In time's nick his chauffeur inched the car out of the way of a hurtling locomotive...
...more scientific book recently published in the U. S. is Ideal Marriage, Its Physiology & Technique by Dr. Th. H. Van de Velde, retired director of the Gynecological Clinic at Haarlem, The Netherlands, But this book is too risky, culturally, for general distribution. Only doctors, lawyers, ministers, social workers and educators may buy it. The Dutch were among the first to make family control a general convenience. In his Ideal Marriage he analyzes and describes the minutiae of male and female physiological activities pertaining to sexual activities. Incidentally he defines a kiss "an irregular intermittent pneumatic massage...
Wilhelm Hohenzollern II, his wife the Princess Hermine, his son, Friedrich Wilhelm, and a party of ten, motoring between The Hague and Haarlem, Holland, discovered in a ditch, badly smashed, the car in which their servants had preceded them. The servants were unhurt. Later in the day on Kager Lake a speed launch carrying the younger members of the party, blew up, badly burned and bruised two, nearly capsized the yacht Olympia on which the senior Hohenzollerns were cruising...
...upon his patience. They were also a tax upon his knowledge for he had never learned the grammar of art; he composed with genius, but his drawing would not parse. He was a master of tone. His pigment, always transparent, was thinned with a vehicle-Siccatif de Haarlem or Siccatif de Coutrey-if he was in haste for drying. He admired the Dutch. He feared the Spanish. "Dishwater," he said, sticking out his tongue at a picture of Rousseau's. The best collection of his work is in the Institute of Chicago-22 large canvases, gift of Edward...