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Caught short by the President's fund-freezing order were foreign Cinemactresses llona Massey (Hungarian), Ingrid Bergman (Swedish), Michele Morgan (French), and Directors Rene Clair and Jean Renoir, both French. Miss Massey, given $125 out of her weekly $2,500 pay check, thought she could get along, made no bones about admitting she once lived on $6 a month as a Budapest seamstress...
Early in the 1930's, there was a small group of undergraduates who had the money and desire to purchase works of Titian and Renoir. That rich era of student collectors is now past, and most of the works in the present exhibition are small objects which are enthusiasts have saved...
...Meals in bed," Petty, Varga, and the best of the Renoir girls to replace portraits of "glum Harvard greats" in the Union, and open-house for both sexes in dormitory rooms was demanded in the latest Freshman petition, better known as the "Declaration of Rights and Grievances of the Class of '44," which appeared yesterday in the Freshman Dining Halls...
...Renoir did not have to wait for posthumous fame. In his own lifetime, collectors bought his pictures hungrily at prices that ranged up to $18,102. Today, of the 4,000-odd paintings he turned out, more than half are owned in the U. S. One U. S. collector, terrible-tempered Dr. Alfred ("Argyrol") Barnes of Merion, Pa., amassed the largest Renoir collection in the world...
...declining years, while World War I hammered at the gates of Paris, white-bearded old Renoir lived on a farm in the south of France. He was nearly paralyzed with arthritis, but with paintbrushes lashed to his gnarled hands, he still painted his sunset-colored nudes, still kept a temper as sunny as a boy's. When an irate admirer appeared with a forged Renoir, suggesting that the old man should sue the forger, Renoir merely painted the forgery over, made it into a genuine Renoir...