Word: painters
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Newfoundland trawler, L'lle Bourbon, spent a small fortune transforming it into a floating refrigerator. Then he assembled as ill-assorted a crew as ever walked up a gangplank: his expansive, motherly wife, who had once lived with natives in Madagascar; a blonde artist (niece of Paul Chabas, painter of September Morn); a Breton radio operator and his bitter-tongued fishwife; a Turkish engineer; a doctor and his wife, a Parisian hairdresser who filled her trunk with useless sport clothes; a mechanic and his wife; about 25 common seamen and lobstermen. Another bad mistake de Boers made before setting...
...this seemed a good joke until the city fathers of Tongres decided to punish zealous M. Grammens for spoiling the markings on their municipal buildings. Sentenced to a month's imprisonment. Painter Grammens became overnight a Flemish martyr. The embarrassed Government released him after only two weeks in jail...
Having tired of one short jail sentence after another, Painter Grammens recently announced an armistice of sorts: no more daubing on official buildings, but plenty of attention to such private undertakings as shops, hotels, garage owners, doctors. Meanwhile, the Belgium Royal Commission on Names and Dialects made haste to appease M. Grammens and all Flemish nationalists. Announced last week was a change of name for hundreds of Belgian towns and villages. Samples: Leuven for Louvain, Ieper for Ypres, Brugge for Bruges, Kortrijk for Courtrai...
From Richmond last week came the report of Mr. Weddell's investigations. Sir Godfrey Kneller, court painter to England's King Charles II and signer of the Richmond portrait, did two pictures of Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin, Russian envoy to the Court of St. James's in 1681. Comparing Richmond's John Smith with both, Mr. Weddell found the subject identical. Vaguely London dealers murmured that Sir Godfrey's favorite engraver was named John Smith: maybe that was how Piotr Ivanovich Potemkin passed for Virginia's Smith...
Died. Katharine Augusta Carl, eightyish, U. S. portrait painter; scalded by hot water in her bathtub; in Manhattan. In 1903, after arrangements requiring infinite tact and ceremony, Miss Carl started to paint the portrait of China's Dowager Empress. When she had finished three, Her Majesty was so pleased with the whole procedure that she wanted Miss Carl to continue painting her picture indefinitely...