Word: luxembourgers
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...cavalcade of the Garde Républicaine pranced and clattered up to the Little Luxembourg Palace, in which are the sumptuous apartments of the President of the Senate. Here Mme and M. Paul Doumer have lived for the past four years. Last week, only four days before President-Elect Doumer's inaugural, he resigned as President of the Senate (which elected as its new President Senator Albert Lebrun). As the horses stamped and swished their tails in the courtyard last week, Premier Pierre Laval arrived. He and President-Elect Doumer then motored slowly (so that the Garde Républicaine could keep...
Sixty-two-year-old Artist Leon Dabo is well known to the older art-critics and active women's club members of the U. S. Before the War he was ubiquitous; his paintings were bought by such museums as the Luxembourg at Paris, the Imperial at Tokyo, the National at Ottawa, the National at Washington, the Metropolitan at Manhattan, the Fine Arts at Boston. He was acquainted with the great & famed everywhere. Since the War he has been shy about his paintings but bold about his conviction that while U. S. men are growing more material-minded, their women...
...loan exhibition of her good friend and adviser Artist Davies hung beside her bequests last week. Critics agreed that the Bliss Collection has now made the Modern Museum what it was founded to become, a lively purgatory wherein promising new arrivals may await, as French artists wait in the Luxembourg for the Louvre, admission to the musty paradise of the Metropolitan Museum...
...dozen collections and the Luxembourg Museum in Paris lent portraits of lovely ladies for the open show. Artists represented ranged from early Romantic Théodore Géricault. Courbet, Cabanel to ultramodern Marie Laurencin and Jean Lurçat Lovely ladies painted included the Duchess of Rutland Russian Dancer Ida Rubenstein (by Leon Bakst) and Maud Dale thingly disguised as Mme D. by Jean...
...wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane...