Word: madonna
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Madonna of Avenue A (Warner). A Bootlegger who sings nicely in the moonlight, accompanying himself on the guitar, meets a lonely girl from a private school, teaches her how to drink. Ousted from school, the girl visits Manhattan to find the Park Avenue home her mother has spoken of so often. It is a dull, wandering fiction, hardly made bearable by the good looks of Dolores (Mrs. John Barrymore) Costello. Most expected shot: the moment when the girl and her mother meet in a bar where the mother, who had lied about her high estate, has been swigging with sailors...
...vehement kind that he must not be surprised if any of the brethren wish to call attention to its implications." Continued Bishop Furse: ". . . He is hurting the feelings ... of thousands of people throughout the world with language such as his reference to the statue of the Madonna as a 'female and child.' " Answered Bishop Barnes: "I stand as a prominent member of what is known as the Modernist Movement. That movement seeks to be loyal to the Church but it also seeks to be loyal to TRUTH." Said still another Bishop: "So do we all." Thereupon the Bishops...
...were lifted the cross, the scarlet banners of the soldiery. Humans and horses were drawn with that rude simplicity of Italian Primitives which is pronounced charming by modern sophisticates. This painting, according to gallery officials, had been appraised by experts at $800,000. The other, a similarly styled Madonna and Child by Fra Filippo Lippi (circa 1406-69), was said to have been appraised...
...each other for ten minutes of increasing bewilderment, the auction proved a fiasco. True, the Crucifixion was sold for $375,000, breaking the U. S. record. But there was no feverish bidding, there were no great names. The picture was quietly repurchased by Sir Joseph Duveen himself. The Madonna and Child went to Leon Schinasi, Manhattan tobacco merchant, for a paltry $125,000. The auctioneer had to face the fact that between the appraisal total and the realized total was a difference...
...record price for a painting was $750,000, paid by a U. S. syndicate for Raphael's Madonna di Siena...