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...Replace Grandval. whom the French colons detest, with General Pierre Boyer de Latour du Moulin, the successful Resident General of Tunisia...
Spontaneous Evaporation. Landing at Rabat a few hours after Grandval had been ousted, the new French Resident General, General de Latour, took up his command in Morocco. He went to the Sultan's palace to present his respects to the man he had come to fire, Ben Moulay Arafa. Bands played, and the Sultan's honor guard shuffled to attention as the lean Frenchman climbed the stairs to the throne room where Arafa sat waiting. "Everyone desires to see the spirit of friendship reign," said De Latour, looking uncomfortable. Replied the Sultan, peering uneasily: "We would be happy...
...fame slipped away, his name was lost. His scattered paintings, only a few of them signed, and all of them showing the influence of the great Caravaggio, were attributed to Caravaggio's followers and other artists: the brothers Le Nain, Vermeer, the obscure 17th Century Antoine de Latour and the 18th Century Maurice Quentin de la Tour...
...National Gallery's feeble Prench section like a shot of vitamins. Besides the Manet, rated as fine as the Dejeuner sur I'Herbe in the Louvre, Collector Dale's loan contained an assort ment of top-flight Renoirs, Degas and Corots, two Courbets, a superb Fantin-Latour, and important works by such 19th-Century painters as Eugene Delacroix and Jacques-Louis David. That Chester Dale's "loan" might be a permanent one was excitedly conceded last week in museum circles...
Mickey was called Sonny and at seven months Sonny could walk around backstage. At one year he could already say: "I'm not going to do that." He was ready to make his debut. He did so by interrupting a serious duet of Sid Gold and Babe Latour. Dressed in his backstage jeans, Mickey brought down the house by ambling out from the wings in the middle of their act and piping Pal of My Cradle Days. After that first performance Sonny...