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Among the prominents listed as backers is George Bernard Shaw. One scarcely thinks of the satirical Irishman-Englishman as a patron, but it will be recalled that early in his career he functioned as a music critic. And one of his first successful books was The Perfect Wagnerite with its characteristically Shavian appreciations of the music of the great Richard...
Daniel is known as the leading spirit of the group. During the War he took the lead in seeing that the Government was supplied with copper at half the prevailing market price. Before he was 40 he had crossed the Atlantic 70 times. He is a patron of Art, Music, Literature, horse breeding, horticulture, an excellent geographer and anthropologist, a noted philanthropist...
...perverse people, but in a way showing they are inspired by rectitude and especially by charity." To the work of extending the usefulness of the Catholic press, a saint, has been given. He is St. Francis of Sales. In a recent encyclical, the Pope presented him as the Patron Saint of the Catholic Press. He was Bishop of Geneva, Switzerland, 1602-1622, in the days when the Calvinistic "heretics" had to be withstood. He was noted for the energy and zeal displayed in his missionary work in the province Chablais, a stronghold ot Calvinism. His practical advice to defenders...
Prince Tokugawa has added to his glory as patron of music in Japan (TIME, Dec. 10) by the notable success of Jascha Heifetz' tour. In spite of earthquake, the violinist appeared at Kobe, Kyoto, Osaka and three times in the auditorium of the Imperial Hotel, Tokyo, where the Prince had installed a radio broadcasting station. Heifetz' visit to Tokyo was the first of any artist since the earthquake...
...married four times, lived a life of extreme if elegant debauchery and committed crimes too numerous to note. But in spite of all that, he maintained the romantic faith of a child in beauty and holiness?the beauty of Melior, of Acaire?the holiness of Holy St. Hoprig, his patron in Heaven. And then, on the eve of his fifth marriage, he encountered Janicot, a sedate and uncanny personage with curious feet and many damnable names...