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...galleries in Madrid, notably the Prado Museum, were removed under fire to Valencia and in some cases to Paris. While Spanish artists in Spain stubbornly ignored the war if they could, in Paris Spaniard Pablo Picasso found the perfect subject for his new horror-mangled style in a huge mural, The Bombing of Guernica, for the Spanish Government Building of the International Exposition. Meanwhile the choicest exhibition of French masterpieces ever held attracted Paris visitors to the Palais National des Arts. In Munich Reichsführer Adolf Hitler dedicated a new Hall of German Art with a go-minute denunciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Year | 1/3/1938 | See Source »

This week's first nighters entered through the columned porch of the old hotel, under the same overhanging iron-grilled balcony, to the transformed lobby. Off the horseshoe of boxes on the second level was a bar decorated with mural reproductions of Hogarth's "Rake's Progress." Rakes who sought anything stronger than soda pop were disappointed, for South Carolina does not permit the sale of alcoholic drinks in theatres...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theatre: Oldest Theatre | 12/6/1937 | See Source »

Same day the New Yorker appeared with the above ditty, Author Kent was reported arriving in Puerto Rico, where his Washington Post Office Building mural, embellished with an Eskimo message to Puerto Ricans ("Go ahead. Let us change chiefs''), made him a minor hero among Nationalists. At San Juan Mr. Kent offered to testify in the trial of eleven Nationalists charged with killing a policeman, warded off requests for a statement by declaring "If I made one, I'd make it in Eskimo," prepared to sail on to South America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: People, Nov. 29, 1937 | 11/29/1937 | See Source »

Winner in both football and track, third in cross country, and fifth in touch football, Kirkland House is leading in the fall point standing of the Houses, according to figures released by Adolph W. Samborski '25, director of intra-mural athletics...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

Total number of participants in the six House sports was 777, more than 300 more than in the year 1933-34, the previous record. Fall track, an innovation in the intra-mural program, drew 56 men, which more than compensated for the number engaged in House rowing...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: News from the Houses | 11/24/1937 | See Source »

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