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...Metropolitan feature writers got busy when the Midtown Galleries displayed eleven paintings by the proprietor of a beauty parlor on Union Square. Saturnine, mop-headed Paul Mommer, 38, spent his younger days in Luxembourg and in a British prison camp during the War. Afterward he knocked around as a seaman, became a hospital orderly in Manhattan, then a barber. His moody paintings of recollected landscapes, done in the back room of his shop at night, began to impress art critics three years ago, have grown more impressive. Sympathetic customers at the Mommer beauty parlor include Mrs. Norman Thomas...
...Luxembourg Palace in Paris, normally the home of the French Senate, delegates to the 33rd Conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union met. Filing into the hall came delegates from 23 countries,* ten less, as a result of the replacement of parliamentary governments by dictatorships and corporative states, than were represented at the last Paris meeting...
Netherlands, Switzerland, Belgium and Luxembourg. While President Roosevelt went off to the Jefferson Islands Club for his weekend "charm school'' party (see col. j), the van Zeelands stayed for a round of Washington parties, visited New York and it was announced that Premier van Zeeland would return this week...
...same royal family and were most ardently bound to neutrality during the War, they formed instinctively a tight little group that talked and voted alike during the early years of the League of Nations. Instinctively Baltic Finland joined them and also the Low Countries, Belgium, The Netherlands, minuscule Luxembourg. Nothing very practical was done about this group until December 1930, when delegates of all except Finland met in Oslo, Norway to try nothing more elaborate than a mutual tariff agreement. Main trouble was that the best individual customers of all these countries were Germany and Britain, no parties...
Throughout this amazing book, we are constantly aware of the poetic nature of its subject. We realize, possibly, that Marie Bashkirtseff was a genius, that her works should have their place in the British Museum, the Musee de Luxembourg, and the Nice Museum. For one who has not read the Bashkirtseff Diaries, "Fountains of Youth" presents a tantalizing attraction. For the reader who has, Miss Creston offers perhaps a slightly new interpretation of the bare facts. She flavors the words of the young artist with a beauty and poetry of her own which tend to enhance the value...