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...legend of Don Juan was invented by a Spanish monk in the 16th Century nominally in order to frighten young profligates into piety. In the original the sensuous, rakehell Don kills the father of Doña Ana, one of the girls he has violated. Later he invites the father's statue to sup with him. The statue comes, demands that Juan repent his many sins. Don Juan refuses, is snatched down into Hell...
Greville had several love affairs and one illegitimate child, but compared with Pepys, Bachelor Greville was a veritable monk. It is easy to see why his love affairs were few and brief. After keeping a beautiful, well-mannered mistress at Lord Wharncliffe's villa for seven weeks ("Henry de Roos, who is the grand purveyor of women to all his friends, gave her to me"), 35-year-old Greville bitterly philosophizes that on account of her he has read no more than a dozen heavy volumes, doubts "if ever I shall take one to live with me again...
This week this "monk of modern art'' was shown in a new aspect to the U. S. public when Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art exhibited 150 lithographs, etchings and wood engravings produced by Rouault in the past 20 years. Many had not been shown anywhere before. Most were done at the instance of Vollard for that publisher's fiercely faithful and interminably delayed de luxe editions. Several magnificent portraits were included: of Moreau, Verlaine, Baudelaire. In the color etchings art followers found new, bright colors, strange to Rouault, as if medieval gaiety were entering...
Because she has overstayed her leave in the U. S., the Department of Labor ordered the arrest, when found, of Animal Tamer Mme Maria Rasputin Soloviev, statuesque daughter of "Mad Monk" Grigoriy Rasputin, spiritual adviser to the late Tsarina of Russia. Where Mme Soloviev was taming animals last week the Labor Department did not know. Continuing his financial retrenchment, William Randolph Hearst sold over $100,000 worth of art treasures including Chippendale chairs. Georgian beds, silverware of the Charles II and William III periods. Purchaser: John Davison Rockefeller Jr., who will place them in the Governor's Palace...
...story, which otherwise runs so true to form it resembles the competent playing of a piece of music that everybody knows. Out of family conflicts, the War, Depression, the two families produce one unhappy intermarriage, one well-known liberal, one feminist, one famous artist, one War victim, one monk. The third generation turns out a talented left-wing artist, an illegitimate-born Communist, an avowed Fascist. Despite this disturbing picture of British family history, Author Bentley takes a calm view of the future: If half of the preceding generation muddled through, reasons one of her characters, why fear the fate...