Word: roerich
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Emperor Rang Teh (Henry Pu-Yi) of _ Manchukuo. Manhattan's Painter-Philosopher-Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich found a new Head of State upon whom to bestow the Roerich Museum's insignia, first class. Reason: Manchukuo's contribution to world culture...
...Hudson from New York. He is chairman of the cotton textile code's advisory board. David Coyle is a theoretical writer on business & finance as well as a consulting engineer, graduate of Princeton and Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute. He worked on the New York Life building, the Roerich Museum and built a home for himself at Bronxville, N. Y. with no heating arrangements on the second floor because Mr. Coyle believes that people should sleep in very cold rooms. Just before joining the technical review board of PWA, he had finished planting a nut farm in New Jersey. Laurence Todd...
...opened last week will move to San Diego, to Los Angeles, to Portland. Ore. The Honolulu Museum is calling for it. It includes 15 huge Kakemono-like drawings which Sculptor Noguchi made in Peiping and about 20 of his well-known portrait heads: Dancer Martha Graham, Mystic Nicholas Konstantin Roerich. Authors John Erskine and Thornton Niven Wilder, Mexican Muralist Jose Clemente Orozco. Left out of the California exhibition is the newest Noguchi, a great white plaster shape something like a starfish and something like a woman which he has named "Miss Expanding Universe...
Grave, goat-bearded Nicholas Konstantin Roerich has been more fortunate than most Russian emigres since the days when he was official scene painter for the Moscow Art Theatre. He went to the U. S. in 1920 with a mystical manner and a shipload of paintings, explored Thibet, gave lectures on the Higher Life, acquired a circle of adoring acolytes who refer to him as The Marster, designed an international peace flag, and had a 24-story apartment house-museum put up in Manhattan in his honor. Last week came a check. Because of failure to meet interest on mortgages totalling...
Friends of Roerich wished for him last week that such a treaty already existed. Carrying Art's flag he might be able to wrangle from the British a visa for India, where his wife lay sick but where the British-despite official pleas from Washington and Paris and four other countries -(Czechoslovakia, Jugoslavia, Brazil & Peru)-feared his alleged sympathy for Soviet Russia...