Word: val
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...mocking burlesque peculiar to the puppet, color schemes and settings by Bruno Angoletta are forceful and direct. The leading puppets preserve the illusion of being life size while the "business" in the show is carried on by "minor puppets" carved by peasants of the wood-carving school of Val Gardena, Alps...
...like Mme Defarge in the French Revolution resuming her knitting. With her in the Presidential box were her son James, Mrs. Henry Morgenthau Jr.. Mrs. Mary Howe Baker, daughter of Roosevelt Secretary-Crony Louis McHenry Howe, and Miss Nancy Cook, Mrs. Roosevelt's partner in the Val Kill furniture factory...
...added. French windows look down over a mile of virgin timber through which tumbles a cascade to the river. The estate covers 1,000 acres. Here live or visit his five children, of whom Son Elliott was married last month. Here Mrs. Roosevelt, able, active and animated, runs the Val-Kill shops, where workmen make reproductions of early American furniture by hand. Here lives Governor Roosevelt's elderly mother. Both women take very good care of the Governor when he comes down from Albany for weekends to live the life of a squire of Hyde Park. He looks after...
Died. Maurice Fromkes, 59, Polish-born U. S. artist noted for his paintings of Spaniards; in Paris. In 1908 he won the Salmagundi Club portrait prize. His technique was "hard, dry, brilliant, with an enamel-like brilliance." His portrait of the late Cardinal Merry del Val hangs in the Vatican...
...cardinals might have chosen any Catholic male over 30 for Pope. But of course they would not. The late debonair Raphael Cardinal Merry del Val was seriously discussed as the Able Man. So too were a few others. But the preponderant choice after seven ballots, as everyone now knows, was Achille Ambrogio Damiano Ratti, Cardinal and Archbishop of Milan...