Word: took
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Paris. He quickly closed a bargain by which the ten-year-old, still unfinished and partly empty Pennsylvania Museum would store the famed Gangnat Renoirs free, with the privilege of exhibiting them when it pleased. Slender, black-eyed M. Gangnat took the opportunity of visiting the U. S. and last week was in Manhattan on his way to Hollywood...
Philippe Gangnat's father, Maurice, made his money in steel, took no interest in painting until 1903. In that year he met Pierre Auguste Renoir, bought twelve paintings right off the bat and soon became a fast friend of the old painter. Before the artist died in 1919, Steelmaster Gangnat had accumulated no less than 150 paintings in the softly-modeled, peach-bloom style of Renoir's later years. After Maurice Gangnat's death in 1924, his son let all but 50 paintings go at an auction. The fineness of the 50 last week impressed the Pennsylvania...
...boat got under way. Most plausible of a welter of rumors-including one, later proved false, that he had been seen boarding a steamer for Europe-was advanced by a Norwalk, Conn, house painter who claimed he had heard a plane over Long Island Sound same day Whitfield took flight. The plane's motor sputtered, said he, then died, and he thought it might have dropped into the Sound. By last week's end private searchers had given up. Meantime, while Andrew Whitfield 's father & mother remained in Virginia, Brother John scoffed at hints of suicide, told...
...Composer-Pianist Franz Liszt play in Budapest in 1870, heard Composer Richard Wagner conduct in Vienna in 1876. Fellow students with her were Conductor Artur Nikisch and Composer-Conductor Gustav Mahler (TIME, Feb. 7). She heard Russian Pianist Anton Rubinstein (Melody in F), Spanish Violinist Pablo de Sarasate (Zigeunerweisen), took piano lessons from Clara Schumann, gifted wife of Composer Robert Schumann...
...gave him all in earnest, he took...