Word: royale
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...year-old duchess (married, but" separated from her husband) is a reckless partisan of Spain's royal pretender, Don Juan. Many times during the last few years she had been fined or imprisoned for breaching the peace, resisting the law and distributing anti-government propaganda. This time the Falangists had charged her with treason because she had shouted seditious comments at the funeral of a monarchist friend who had died in a Franco prison...
...given greater shock to well-intentioned Donor Chantrey. He had left the bulk (?105,000) of his estate for "the purchase of works of fine art of the highest merit . . . executed within the shores of Great Britain." Chantrey's will specified that the president and council of the Royal Academy should be the judges of what to buy with the money. In 1897, the Academicians had picked the Tate as just the place for the collection...
This week in London, the Royal Academy, having worked over Tate's basement trove, put the whole collection on show in its Piccadilly museum. The Academy hopes to prove the error of Scoffer Rothenstein's ways, to end what it considers a "mischievous and unseemly controversy." Rothenstein hopes gallerygoers will laugh the collection back to the cellar. In a sense, he will be on show himself. From a group study entitled The Princess Badroulbadour, painted by his father Sir William Rothenstein, the young John of 1908 will gaze, fixed and helpless, at the passing jury...
...Many were staring close-ups of the poor-which he sells for fat sums to the rich. Lately Portinari has abandoned the sad grey plains and squat, nubble-knuckled figures of his earlier years in favor of a tropically brilliant, anatomically believable world that blazes with sunshiny yellows and royal-purple shadows. But though he has changed the colors of his palette, he has not changed his political colors. The clear new light in Portinari's newest murals-including that of the Tooth-Puller-does more than please the eye; it makes Portinari, who says he paints "to teach...
...seemed to Reginald Kell that "there must be some easier way out than engineering." So he took up the clarinet. After one day, because he had once studied violin, he could play a couple of tunes. In ten years, he was a professor of clarinet in the Royal Academy of Music, which later made him a Fellow, "a fate I thought reserved only for respectable musicians, like an organist at St. Paul...