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...sleeping in Bombay parks. Then a calendar company commissioned him to paint a goddess. After two more months of painting goddesses, young Yawalkar tired of city life and lit out for home. There he remained until about a year ago, when the young, rich, plump, art-loving Maharaja of Gwalior invited him to show his paintings at the palace, Upshot of that was that Artist Yawalkar went to Paris last year, then to London, and this week, in Manhattan, had his first big one-man show. It was also the first show of any importance by an Indian modernist...
Whenever, in Queen Victoria's day. a recalcitrant Maharaja showed himself as "blind," "unrepentant" and "desperate", as Chiang Kai-shek is now (to use Mr. Hirota's adjectives), British subjects had to discharge their duty by recognizing some other Indian as his rightful successor, and Mr. Hirota indicated that this is exactly what Japan is in course of doing in China: "Our Government now look forward to the establishment and growth of the new Chinese regime capable of genuine co-operation with Japan which it is our intention to assist in the building...
...only been properly advertised, would unquestionably have outdrawn all previous exhibitions in the Library's history. For, although this collection consisted only of one major item and several lesser objects, that one major item was the Princess Babs. (pronounced Bah-Bah) of Sarawak, daughter of the only white Maharaja in British Borneo...
Died. The Maharanee of Indore, 22, daughter of the Jagirdar of Kolapur; after an operation; at Samaden, Switzerland. When she was 10 she married the Maharaja of Indore, who next year packed off to Oxford. He succeeded to the throne in 1930 when British pressure forced his father, who had ordered the execution of the lover of one of his dancing girls, to abdicate just before his marriage to Nancy Miller of Seattle. The Maharanee's palace at Indore was the first air-conditioned building in India...
Died. His Highness Raj Rishi Shri Sewai Sir Jey Singhji Veerendra Shiromani Dev, Bharat Dharam Prabhakar, 55, Maharaja of Alwar, exiled in 1933 by the British after an agrarian uprising for which he was held responsible; of apoplexy, possibly resulting from hip and shoulder fractures received when he fell down a stairway upon leaving a squash court; in Paris. He traveled with 400 trunks and a retinue of 25, including an orchestra...