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Founded by Don Torcuato Luca de Tena, who was made a marqués for his work, A. B. C. was long considered Spain's No. 1 newspaper. During the World War A. B. C. built a great new printing establishment and Don Torcuato never bothered to deny rumors that it was paid for by the Central Powers. After the peaceful revolution of 1931 A. B. C.'s was the loudest voice demanding restoration of the monarchy...
During the civil war the paper was in Republican hands, but the founder's son, Don Juan Ignacio Luca de Tena, continued to publish a Monarchist A. B. C. in Seville. When Franco took Madrid, Don Juan Ignacio got his paper back and immediately began publishing it in the old way: calling for the restoration of Alfonso. Franco tried to get rid of Luca de Tena by offering him an embassy, but Don Juan Ignacio refused. Last month A. B. C. published a defiant pro-Monarchist editorial. Next thing its readers knew, it had encountered a "shortage of paper...
...Rimsky-Korsakov never seemed to matter. A good-natured plot and attractive sets helped make Marouf popular at the Paris Opera-Comique. The opera had eleven performances at the New York Metropolitan between 1917 and 1920. Though Composer Rabaud meant his lead to be a tenor, Baritone Giuseppe de Luca always sang the role at the Metropolitan. Last week the spring company resurrected Marouf and put it on in English. As lead, they had not only a tenor but the tenor whom Rabaud considers made for the part...
...building a brand new temple for the monks who had guarded it; a group of Renaissance pieces from the Dreyfus collection, just bought by Andrew Mellon for his new national museum (TIME, Jan. 11); two Benvenuto Cellinis; David with the Head of Goliath, only known bronze by Luca della Robbia beside his famed doors for the Florence Cathedral; the earliest of six known figures by Daumier of "Ratapoil," his famed caricature of a Bonapartist agitator...
...Father Piccirilli moved from central Manhattan to The Bronx, built a red brick house across several city lots with a large carriage door through which to haul out big sculptures. His sons he sent back to Italy one by one to study at Rome's Accademia San Luca. U. S. sculptors presently found that the Piccirillis could finish their works in marble better than they could themselves. Through the years the six brothers faithfully executed such work by other sculptors as Frederick MacMonnies' Civic Virtue in Manhattan, Daniel Chester French's great Lincoln in the Lincoln Memorial...