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Fattest of all prizes at the Chicago Art Institute's 39th annual show last week was one of $1,500 given by Patron Frank Granger Logan, retired grain broker, the Institute's assiduous vice president. This sum they presented to Painter George Benjamin Luks for his strong, broadly painted, modernistic study of a male native of Cuba operating an accordion. Another $1,000 from Patron Logan went to Painter Charles Sydney Hopkinson for a study of himself and his family...
Uncle George Clay is the central figure, a patriarchal country doctor of many opinions and few patients, the patron saint of practical joking, as prodigal of his considerable wit and scholarship as he is of his money. He sits in his big chair playing with his "chilluns," drinking punch, arguing temperance, theology, education; jesting coarsely, slyly, uproariously; secretly planning, and executing, gruff generosities...
...Matzenauer, contralto prima donna: "Last week I filed a voluntary petition in bankruptcy. My liabilities were listed as $48,410. Among those to whom I am debtor are Felix Warburg, banker and art patron, $20,000; the U. S. Government, $1,500 income tax; New York State, $1,000 income tax; modistes, department stores, tradesmen, fish and ice dealers; $1.97 to Western Union. My only unmortgaged assets were my opera costumes, but I claimed exemption on those...
...simplicity, loyalty-these, and other bulking labels which people have tagged onto the man Francis, and which tradition stipulates for the order of Friars which he founded, appealed to Benito Mussolini as virtues that would well become the nation of Italy in his consulship. He proclaimed* St. Francis the patron saint of Fascism, and appointed the year from September, 1926 to September, 1927 as a year, of "Franciscanism." There was an imposing torchlight procession at Assisi and many a high mass in the ravaged old Church of the Aracoeli. The King dedicated a new road to the stony hole where...
...banks of the river between Warsaw and Rostkow, Poland. On a vessel proceeding slowly up the stream to the Catholic convention at Warsaw were two golden shrines encased in oaken caskets about which 200 priests busied themselves in continuous devotion. One shrine contained many bones of Stanislas Kostka, patron saint of Poland's youth. The other shrine housed his remaining bones which were presented to the Catholic Church at Zakroczyn, where the saint's uncle was a onetime governor...