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Berlin fell. Hitler was reported dead. Paris was deeply stirred-for Gabrielle Colette, author of The Gentle Libertine and 20 other novels about love, had been elected to the Académie Goncourt. Now she would sit with "The Ten," the living literary immortals who each year award the Prix Goncourt to the best French novel. One newspaper killed Hitler's obituary to make way for Colette's biography...
Painter Bouguereau went to Paris, won the coveted Prix de Rome in 1850. He was twice married, the second time at 71 to Mrs. Elizabeth Gardner of Exeter, New Hampshire. He fought twice for France, never forgave Germany's Empress- Dowager invited French painters to exhibit in Berlin. Most French painters objected. Bouguereau said: "If I have to go to Berlin alone, I shall go. I consider it a patriotic duty to conquer the German painters in the very capital of German Empire...
Harold S. Shapero '41 of Newton has won the annual Prix de Rome in Music, it was announced yesterday by Howard Barlow, conductor of the Columbia Symphony Orchestra. The work, "A Nine-Minute Overture," was played during Barlow's regular Sunday afternoon radio program. Instead of the customary privilege of studying at the American Academy in Rome, Shapero will receive $1,000 outright...
Recently awarded the Knight Prize for composition by the Music Department, Shapero is the first Harvard undergraduate to win the Prix de Rome. The winning piece is his first attempt at writing for orchestra. This summer he will study under the German composer Paul Hindemith at Stockbridge...
Back in his native Spain, Souto found his best inspiration in the old Spanish masters Goya, El Greco, Velásquez. In 1934 the Spanish Republican Government gave him a Prix de Rome, which lasted him until the outbreak of the Spanish Civil War. A Loyalist who had a brother in Franco's ranks, Souto didn't enjoy the war much. Two months before it was over he left for Paris and Brussels, drifted later to the U.S. Exiled and running low on funds in Manhattan, Souto was lucky enough to get friends to stake him to last...