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Professor Ballantine will play a group of short selections composed of: Brahm's Rhapsody in E flat, and two compositions by Debussy entitled: Et la Lune Descend sur le Temple qui fut, and Jardin sous la Pluie...
Auguste Renoir was born in Limoges in February 1841, died in December 1919 at Cagnes-sur-Mer in the south of France. His first job was painting copies of 18th Century French pictures on fans and window shades for a Paris factory. Before he was 25 he knew most of the men who were to be his lifelong friends and associates in Impressionism: Monet, Cézanne, Sisley, Pissarro, Diaz. He enlisted in the cavalry for the Franco-Prussian war, but nothing happened to him. Very little happened to him all his life. He was a painter's painter...
...Renoir, by Albert C. Barnes and Violette de Mazia. Minton, Balch ($5). * One, known to all Cagnes-sur-Mer as Lili, married Son Jean Renoir, later became famed as Cinemactress Lili Hessling...
...dirigible was about a dozen miles off Point Sur when something went suddenly, inexplicably wrong in her stern. A jar-a lurch-and the operator of the elevators in the control car felt the wheel jerked out of his hands. Wallowing like a wounded whale, the Macon rolled over on her side, stuck her nose into the air, started to climb. The lookout atop the great bag telephoned the control car that a rib had snapped in the framework, that No.1 gas cell near the fin had ripped open. Steady as a stone, Commander Wiley ordered gas valved from...
...officers and crew had been safely bundled aboard the rescue ships. But long before the last survivor had been picked up all that was left of the $4,000,000 Macon, its chief radio operator and a Filipino mess boy had been swallowed up by the Pacific off Point Sur...