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...meetings was held in Carnegie Hall, to which some 2,000 Negroes were admitted at from $1.10 to $2.65 a seat. The speeches were inspirational. Bishop George Alexander McGuire spoke on The Black Man of Sorrows, exhibited pictures of a mulatto Christ crowned with thorns and of a Black Madonna. "If God is your Father, He must be the same color that...
...First. Spanish embossed leather covers the walls of one room. Among the artists represented are Raphael, Veronese, Titian, Botticelli,, Fra Angelico, Giotto, Pollaiuolo, da Fabriano, Diirer, Holbein, Rembrandt, Rubens, Van Dyck, Ribera, Velasquez, Sargent, Zorn, La Farge, Whistler. Three of the most famous paintings are da Fabriano's Madonna and Child, Titian's magnificent Rape of Europa, and the glorious Velasquez portrait Pope Innocent X. It is hoped that the collection will still be available to students and lovers of Art as it always has been under its late mistress...
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...