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...Fontainebleau school is gone. The merriest and best-loved of its teachers, 77-year-old Isidore Philipp (piano), is a penniless refugee in the Pyrenees. Pince-nezed, schoolmarmish Nadia Boulanger, coach of many a young composer, was last seen driving away with her most precious possessions piled high in an automobile. Few other Fontainebleau teachers have been heard from at all. But two pianists, Robert Casadesus and his pretty wife Gaby, are in the U. S. Last week they started up the Fontainebleau tradition at Newport...
...cabled to Berlin to suggest that troops in Nazi-occupied Boulogne lay a wreath on the house at 105 Grand Rue, where South American Liberator General Jose de San Martin (who led 4,000 men across the Andes in 1817, freed Chile, Peru and Argentina from Spanish rule) died penniless...
Marie-Adélaïde refused the hand of Prince Xavier of Bourbon-Parma, became an unhappy wanderer. She lived in Switzerland, then Italy, almost penniless. In 1920 she entered a Carmelite convent as a novice, but did not take to a life of contemplation. She joined the Little Sisters of the Poor, gave that up, went to Munich to study medicine. In 1924 she died at Hohenburg, a broken old woman...
...world's two oldest professions. Her dark, bonneted housekeeper (admirably played by Flora Robson) is saddled with two potty sisters, and tries to billet them on Miss Fiske. When the loonies strew her parlor with seaweed and dead birds, Miss Fiske bids them be off; but being penniless as well as potty, they have nowhere to be off to. In order to give the girls a home, the desperate housekeeper does her mistress...
Such was the "new Hellenism," which Wilde dramatized to the bitter end. Refusing his friends' advice to flee rather than stand trial, broken by two years' hard labor in prison (productive of his most sincerely questioning work, De Profundis), a drink-cadging exile in the Paris bistros, penniless, bloated, deaf, dying piecemeal at 44 of cerebral meningitis, Oscar could still summon up a deathbed defiance of what he called Philistia. "I am,," said he, tossing off a glass of friends' champagne, "dying beyond my means...