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...exhibited Don Manuel Osorio, an engaging infant half-surrounded by three cats, a bird cage, a tame magpie. Chicago's Art Institute was represented by six small canvases showing a monk accurately and amusingly shooting and capturing a bandit. All the other pictures were portraits: the aloof La Tirana, an actress whom legend has included among Goya's mistresses; Mr. Mellon's gravely beautiful Senora Sabasa Garcia; and the duchesses, generals, noble children with toys or animals whom a court painter must paint but which Goya immortalized...
...Rome he took a plane for Tirana. Albania, then flew on to Salonika. There he changed to train for Athens. Mr. Insull hurried to the Grande Bretagne Hotel. In Greece, his lawyers had told him, he would be safe from extradition...
Birthday. Ahmed Bey Zogu I, King of the Albanians. Date: Oct. 8. Age: 35. Celebration: listening to the roar of 55 Italian warplanes which zoomed down to Tirana to bring a greeting card from Prime Minister Mussolini while a squadron of British destroyers fired a 21-gun salute in the harbor 20 mi. away...
...From Tirana, Albania's capital, to Teheran, Persia's capital, is at best an arduous trip of nearly 2,000 miles through primitive country. Last week Charles Calmer Hart, lately promoted from U. S. Minister to Albania to be U. S. Minister to Persia, was making this journey. But instead of traveling over long roundabout routes, he was shortcutting from post to post across Soviet Russia. The significance of his trip lay in the fact that he was the first U. S. diplomat to enter Russia officially in a dozen years...
...days later a cavalcade of jovial Greek bandits rode over the mountainous divide into Albania, foregathered in the cellar of the leading Greek restaurant in the Albanian capital of Tirana. There the bandit leader, one Constantine Bogdanopoulos, ordered Italian champagne and lamb kidneys broiled on skewers, flung on the table a money belt from which spilled many a drachma, and, later in the evening, boastfully unmasked to a pop-eyed Albanian journalist the mystery of Kopra...