Word: patronized
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...Virgin, the Italian title is clear-cut. But some of the Italian claims are unverifiable or downright shady. It is true that the Mona Lisa once hung in Bonaparte's bedroom at the Tuileries, but that was three centuries after its purchase by Francis I, onetime patron of its painter. Records indicate that the picture remained in France until its theft from the Louvre in 1911 by an Italian. But Fascista was longer on acquisitive patriotism than on logic. Said Fascista...
...conquer the musical world. Such a feat bowls over Amelia Cornell (Olivia de Havilland), who has a violin scholarship in a conservatory and at first explains that she will hear no music that is not "classical." When Amelia in turn bowls over the conservatory's goatish old patron (Charles Winninger), his son, and the dignified young manager of his radio factory (Jeffrey Lynn), the score is ready for a mildly entertaining melange of melody and misunderstanding...
Foreign influences are strong. Brazil has some 3,500,000 Italians and sons-of-Italians. Last year Edda Mussolini Ciano took a "health trip" to Brazil, where her chief host was Dom João de Orléans e Braganga, "heir" to the Brazilian throne and patron of the Integralistas, super-Fascist greenshirts whom Dictator Vargas has so far managed to suppress...
Ballet dates from the lace-pants centuries, when kings and nobles were its patrons. Modern balletomanes, a tribe with a better-than-average quota of lacy characters, could probably think of likelier patrons of the ballet than Big Business-especially such a big business as Ford Motor Co. Yet at the New York World's Fair, Ford became the ballet's first industrial patron by launching a 17-minute production called A Thousand Times Neigh. A free show, performed twelve times a day in a plushy new $500,000 theatre in the Ford building, the ballet is done...
Indeed, Vag had always had a feeling of kinship with Frost, the patron saint of all vagabonds . . . that would be a good idea, too: asking Frost to be the Honorary Chairman of his one-man organization. He'd heard a lot about one-man organizations recently. Anyway, Vag decided that he must hear Frost tonight, and planned to get there early, sit in front and watch the subtle, humorous play of expression over the poet's face when he spoke, Adams House tonight at eight...