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...students have any money, the $4,000 signs on the annual Prix de Rome shine like a rainbow. There are four such prizes-in painting, sculpture, architecture, landscaping. Each means two years at the American Academy in Rome. Competitors must be bachelors under 30, winners must promise not to marry until their two years are up. Since 1926 Yale's School of Fine Arts has had something of a corner on the Rome prizes, especially in painting and sculpture...
...horizon with Joselito and Belmonte, long before the civil war closed most of the bull rings. To observers with long memories and high standards, bullfighting had become decadent: its matadors were virtuosos, its backers venal, its public vulgar. Against this modern (1934) background of decadence Joseph Peyre sets his Prix Goncourt prize-winning novel of bullfighting Madrid...
Emerging bravely from that shadow is the latest novel by Professor Vercel, whose Captain Conan in 1934 received the Prix Goncourt. Written in lean, brilliant prose, Salvage rises to a sustained pitch of excitement in telling of the rescue of a Greek cargo steamer by the salvage tug Cyclone, fades again when the rescue is completed midway in the book...
...York last week the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures re-leased its annual lists of the best pictures of the year. Picked as the best made anywhere in the world was La Kermesse Héroïque (TIME, Oct. 5), winner of the Grand Prix du Cinema Français, produced in France by Tobis, directed by Jacques Feyder, released in the U. S. last autumn. Ihe Board of Review's list of the ten best pictures made in Hollywood...
Architect Kahn, a native New Yorker who studied at Columbia and won a Prix Labarre while at the Paris Beaux-Arts, stepped boldly into the Institute chairmanship in 1933. Brisk, mustached and famed for his spaghetti suppers, he has never designed an opera house but his Squibb Building and many another chaste Manhattan skyscraper are nationally known. As a practical result, Beaux-Arts students have lately been getting assignments for esquisses and projects of automobile factories instead of orangeries. When they finish them in six weeks and ship them to New York, they are returned with crisp comments by such...