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...Author is only five years old as a U. S. citizen, as a writer, 15, as a person, 33. Known to the census as Mrs. Bernard D. N. Grebanier, fellow-Sicilians remember Frances Winwar as Francesca Vinciguerra. Born in Taormina, where her great-uncle was caretaker of the Graeco-Roman amphitheatre, she went to the U. S. with her family when she was eight. A shining advertisement for Manhattan's public schools, College of the City of New York and Columbia University, she speaks seven languages, has published a translation of Boccaccio's Decameron, three historical novels...
Raoul Dufy, distinguished both as painter and as a designer of textiles is represented by a sparkling canvas of "Taormina...
...exhibition will include paintings in oil and water colors, sculpture, prints, and examples of decorative art. Among the outstanding works in oil which will be shown are a still life by Georges Bracque. "Twin Steeds" by Giorgio de Chirico. "Taormina" by Raoul Dufy. "Abstraction" by John Miro, and a picture by Laurencin...
...Hall at 8.15 o'clock: "Tannhauser." Entrance of the Guests into the Wartburg Wagner Ballet Music from "Othello" Verdi Largo Handel Overture to "Gwendoline" Chabrier Symphony in B minor, "Unfinished" Schubert 1. Allegro mederato 2. Andante con moto Rossiniana, Suite from "Les Riens" of Rossini Respight a. Caprl and Taormina: Barcarole and Siciliana b. Lament c. Intermezzo d. Tarantelle (with a Passing Procession) Overture to "The Bartered Bride" Smetana Valse Triste Sibelius Gypsy Dance from "Carmen" Bizel Hungarian March. "Rakoczy" Berlioz