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...west, decorate their dining hall. "We have no money," said Prof. Pijoan when Orozco arrived, "at present only $500." Artist Orozco glowered through his glasses. "Never mind about that," he said. "Have you got a wall?" When Artist Orozco returned to New York he left behind a huge ogival Michel-angelican fresco, 25 x 35 ft. representing a giant Prometheus bearing the fire of truth, in pulsating Mexican color. Wrote Critic Arthur Millier of the Los Angeles Times: "The wall has been energized by the genius of Orozco until it lives as probably no wall in the United States today...
Last week at Buffalo 2,000 members of the National Association of the Deaf met to unveil a bronze and marble statue of Charles-Michel, Abbé de 1'Epée (1712-89), the man who codified the existing hand signs of his day, invented new ones and created the first intelligible means of communication for the deaf. He was a Roman Catholic priest, canon of the Cathedral of Troyes, son of Louis XIV's architect...
...friends among the French bourgeoisie (U. S.: upper classes). When Barbara arrives in Paris she is a small-town Southern girl, almost a type. Her aunt's canny tutelage, her own adaptability, latent good sense, transform her into an original charmer. When she marries good-natured, talented, rich Michel it is a love-match, but satisfactory to all; Mrs. Selby breathes a sigh of relief and goes on a bender with her husband...
...depicting various splendid aspects of Colonial New Orleans. When the buccaneer has gained the heart and boudoir of the Governor's wife and that overbearing villain has been duly cuckolded, there occurs what bids fair to be recalled as a line-of-the-season. La Tour discovers that Michel, a devoted pirate lass lovingly engaged in his service, has a trickle of crimson on her blouse. "But-you're wounded!" he exclaims. As she plunges to the floor, the girl replies: "Damn it!-I'm dead...
Last week, sufficiently recovered to pose for his picture, Michel Courtois was brought back to Roberval. A coroner's jury glanced perfunctorily at the skeleton of Réné Courtois, gave a verdict...