Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Revelation. Once more a Paris model is apotheosized, after first being allowed by a kindly director to have her fling before settling down to a good, but humdrum, existence. This story of a French girl, who works out her salvation by posing for the Madonna and acquiring some of her spiritual quality, might be effective if Charlie Chaplin directed it-and somebody besides Viola Dana played the role. But Lew Cody, Monte Blue and Marjorie Daw help very much in this story, which is The Miracle reversed...
...story of this myth was retold last Sunday at Dr. William Guthrie's church, Manhattan, by a dramatic reading from the Gospel of Isis and Osiris. Said Rector Guthrie: "God wanted the Gospel of Jesus preached in Africa. The discovered 'Black Madonna' meant that He does not reject the negro race from His family and would be willing to have His Mother belong to that race. Here then is living contact to be made with the religious myths and dogmas of the Nile Valley in ancient days in the midst of a swarming Mahammadan and Christian city...
Linwood M. Andrews, Los Angeles collector, paid Adolph Brugier, of Santa Barbara, $100,000 for Titian's The Madonna, Holy Child and Titian's Daughter, Lavinia. Mr. Brugier, while studying in Italy 30 years ago, bought the painting at an auction, paying the equivalent of $150. It has been identified as a Titian supposed to have been lost in a fire in Madrid...
...Pinchot, niece of Pennsylvania's famed Governor (see Page 5), appearing on the professional stage for the first time, gave to the part of the Nun a vibrant grace, a magnetic personality that made her quite the cynosure of the beholders. Lady Diana Manners was supremely beautiful as the Madonna, Werner Krauss magnificent as the crippled piper, Rudolph Schildkraut peculiarly powerful in the portrayal of several roles...
...beautiful fifth century B.C. Greek head, which had been previously loaned for exhibition was given to the Museum permanently by an anomymous benefactor, and a loan of an early Madonna of the tweifth or thirteenth century was received from Mr. John Nicholas Brown...