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...because Rome is less intoxicating, but because they have a harder time freeing their minds of the parlous state of art in the modern world, the parlous state of the world itself. Last week a 27-year-old architect named Erling Frithjof Iversen, winner of this year's Prix de Rome, revealed the sobriety of his generation when he took the occasion of his victory to comment darkly on the dark outlook for modern architects...
...Despite a reputation for extreme diligence at the Paris Conservatoire, where he matriculated in 1889, he quickly became known as an iconoclast, scandalized students and teachers by playing the works of then unrespectable modernist composers during school hours. Refusal of academicians to admit him as a contestant for the Prix de Rome in 1905 started a row resulting in the resignation of the Conservatoire's Director FranQois Theodore Dubois...
...Distinctly not for the squeamish." Lena, by a Prix Goncourt winner (Captain Conan), is a War romance on the order of A Farewell to Arms, plus the sinister violence of plot inseparable from Balkan settings. Readers who stubbornly refuse to humor Balkan settings may call it merely macabre sex melodrama skilfully made up to pass as an indictment...
Favorite was blond Bernd Rosemeyer of Germany who last year won seven out of eight Grand Prix races in Europe, easily outclassed Italy's Tazio Nuvolari, the 1936 Vanderbilt Cup winner. Rosemeyer got away fast at the start this week, temporarily yielded his lead to his countryman Rudolf Caracciola until the tenth lap. Noisiest and swiftest (160 m.p.h.) on the straightaways, Rosemeyer roared up a lead of two-thirds of a lap before the race was one-third run. Headed only when he dropped out for tire changes on the 79th lap, Rosemeyer soon caught young Dick Seaman...
...Painting: Clifford Edgar Jones of Kokomo, Ind., a student at the John Herron Art School in Indianapolis. He brought his school its first Prix de Rome for Carnival, a lively, crowded circus scene...