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Another insight into Persian painting may be gained from a portrait signed by the artist Aga Riza. This is dated about two and a half centuries later, from the end of the sixteenth century. Now there is no epic tale but a contemporary person, not an anonymous craftsman but a celebrated artist. Now it is studied delicacy of drawing, conscious rhythm of inner and outer line, but there is still the Persian abstraction. The body is without weight, a mere pattern of pleasing shapes of color, the pose is without stability...
...afternoon of the Maisonette's opening, the Rev. Vasily Kurdiumoff, portly, bull-voiced rector of the Russian Orthodox Church of Jesus Christ the Savior, went down to the St. Regis, put on his ceremonial blue brocade riza. Assisted by the conductor of his choir, General Sergey Savitzky, he chanted prayers before an improvised altar on which ten candles illuminated an ikon. Then Priest Kurdiumoff presented a loaf of bread and a small silver salt cellar to Mrs. Anne Tiffany, decorator, and to Mrs. Vincent Astor. whose husband owns the hotel. Up to the priest, one by one, filed Russian...
King into Communist? Though his most striking feats have been to make Persia safe from banditry and put the Great Powers in their place, Shah Riza, while tactically respecting Persian traditions and taboos, is now driving ahead with a program of modernization and Persian self-sufficiency which fairly makes his subjects dizzy...
Always at bottom the soldier, Shah Riza spent the closing hours of his visit to Istanbul last week with Turkish generals bent over staff maps showing the new strategic motor roads and railways of Turkey and Persia. Ten years ago there was no railway striking east from Ankara toward Persia and nothing but a caravan trail running west from Teheran toward Turkey. There is no through railway yet but the motor road over which His Majesty zipped from Teheran through Tabriz and Erzerum to the Turkish coast at Trebizond is now in prime shape to become an artery of heavy...