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Ivan Mestrovic once tended sheep in a valley in Dalmatia. In copying the reliques of Greek and Roman art he showed such ability that his father apprenticed him to a master mason. In 1911 he won the Prix de Rome. Almost all important capitals have seen exhibitions of his work...
...people packed the enclosure; Britishers, brought to the scene by a fleet of ten special airplanes, looked for a safe bet; Americans wandered about, each followed by a pickpocket. All Paris was thinking about two gray horses, one of which was pretty sure to take the Grand Prix-the swift Chubasco, the staunch Belfonds. Steve Donoghue, famed British jockey, up on Aquatinte, was liked next best...
...moment, obvious. Four horses had gone down. Four small men in silks lay twisting on the turf while the field swept past them, led home by Baron James A. De Rothschild's La Reine Lumière, 120 to 1, the first filly to win the Grand Prix since 1902. One of the three men was Stephen Donoghue. He had broken his shoulder, escaped death by the width of a horseshoe...
...Professor Haffner," continued Dean Edgell, "is a more recent arrival, but his work in water color as well as in architecture is becoming well known in the United States. He is an architect by profession and winner of the Grand Prix de Rome, but the material on view at Robinson Hall shows that he might have been quite as successful a painter as he is an architect. Mr. Conant is especially well known to the public on account of his pencil sketches...
Born in Vienna, in 1875, he began to play the violin as soon as he was strong enough to hold one to his chin.* He disliked practicing. When he was ten, however, he won first prize in the Conservatoire at Vienna; at 12, the Prix de Rome at the Paris Conservatoire; at 14, he toured the U. S. with Moritz Rosenthal, was hailed as a "wonder-child." He returned to Austria for required general military service, returned to Austria again to sterner service...