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Under Dean Everett Victor Meeks, the School of Fine Arts began winning the Prix de Rome with an almost monotonous regularity...
...major universities in the U. S., Yale has spawned the largest group of professional artists. So skillful is the technical training of the Yale School of Fine Arts that for years its graduates have had a virtual monopoly on the Prix de Rome scholarships. Recognizing these facts, Manhattan's Yale Club last week opened its first annual exhibition of professional Yale artists. Graduates responded enthusiastically. Over 70 Yale artists sent 116 pictures, 23 pieces of sculpture. In age exhibitors ranged from 87-year-old Edwin H. Blashfield (1914 Hon.) to recently graduated John Stull (1934). Other famed exhibitors: Muralist...
...writer, he played football, ran the 100 metres in 11½. An amateur matador, he killed his first two bulls when he was 15, was so badly wounded in 1925 that he had to give up athletics. In literature too he won prizes: France's Grand Prix de Litterature de 1'Academie Française, the prize of the Foundation Tunisienne, England's Northcliffe Prize and Heinemann Award. Author Montherlant, disapproving of the French policy in Tunis, refused the Foundation Tunisienne's 20,000 francs, handed over the Heinemann Prize to London's King...
...partly to the fact that Director Julien Duvivier made most of it on location. He took a cast of Paris actors to northern Quebec last year, used as many natives as possible for crowd scenes and bits. First shown in Paris last winter, Maria Chapdelaine promptly won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français. More noteworthy is the fact that it has been even more successful in Germany, where the critic of the Berliner Volks-Zeitimg was less enthusiastic than his colleagues when he wrote: "It is the greatest work of the French cinema and we should wish such...
...Pacifist, Communist; of pneumonia; in Moscow, where he attended sessions of the Seventh World Communist Party Congress. Son of a French atheist and an Englishwoman, Barbusse enlisted in the War as a private, was invalided out three times, twice cited for bravery. His war book, Le Feu, won the Prix Goncourt in 1917 despite militarists who attacked its "defeatism...