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...still enough of a circus man to like his pictures big. He has the largest private collection of Rubens in the world. The pink stucco, palladian-arched John & Mable Ringling Museum contains about 20 galleries and features mountainous bronze reproductions of Michaelangelo's David and the Father Nile and Father Tiber from the Vatican Gardens. It is useless to show him modern pictures, but dealers have dis covered that if they have nothing large, a religious subject is often a temptation. Ten years ago he decided to build a museum for his collection. The pink Venetian palace in Sarasota...
...Archaeology, professor of the Origins of Art and Oriental Art at the University of Liege, and a director of the Royal Museums of the Cinquantenaire, Brussels. The lectures this year deal with the aspects of Egyptian Art in relation to the lives and habits of the early Nile-dwellers of the pre-Christian...
...native army of the East India Company. But the routine of army life soon bored him; he was always putting in for risky assignments: investigations in disguise among the natives, a journey to Harrar in Somaliland, whence no white man had ever returned; searching for the source of the Nile (his companion Speke got the credit for discovering Victoria Nyanza, but Burton led the expedition). He made the pilgrimage to Mecca in disguise, went to Salt Lake City in the reign of Brigham Young, made an engineering trip to Iceland, wrote many a book on erotic craft & customs...
...just opposite. The opera was AÏda, a particularly old story for Cairo. Years ago, Khedive Ismail Pasha, swollen over the success of the new Suez Canal, had commissioned Verdi to write it for the opening of that same opera house. The tunes, familiar as the Nile settings, promised no great excitement...
...shipnews reporter who press-agented the picture while it was being made, were of a much happier disposition. When rushes of the film were shown on safari, the natives rolled on the ground with laughter, regardless of the nature of the sequence. At Rhino Town, on the White Nile, Pressagent McClain came upon a tribe of natives all naked save that one of them sported a neat, snap-brim brown hat. Removing the hat, Mr. McClain was surprised to find the label: Brooks Bros.,? Madison Ave., New York. And although the film shows many a fierce jungle beast...