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Count Dalla Torre is massive, stocky, weighs perhaps 200 Ibs. and stands half a head taller than most Italians. His complexion is very fair and his hair almost blond. Withal he is of noble and ancient Venetian lineage, though he was born a Paduan. Even enemies find him affable, but few except his friends realize his extraordinary and sensitive keenness of mind...
...reputation when she published, in 1921, a book of poems called Nets to Catch the Wind. After Black Armour, more poetry, she poured into a mold of prose the fluent and shining metal of her talent for metaphor. Jennifer Lorn was her first novel; The Orphan Angel and The Venetian Glass Nephew its successors. Author Wylie, her publishers announce with a show of pride, spent less than three months in writing her latest novel. This is an admission less damaging than it appears to be; Author Wylie thinks before she writes and is therefore capable of producing, with a minimum...
Observers saw in this candid, concise, lucid statement one more proof that Count Volpi epitomizes the best type of self-made Italian business man. Sprung from an old but untitled Venetian family, he was obliged when a boy to earn his living by manual labor. Came an opening in the Levantine shipping trade, and he plunged into a career during which he built up a great chain of trading establishments between Italy and the Near East. Rich, potent, he turned from business to devote himself brilliantly to affairs of state. Premier Giolitti entrusted to him the negotiation of the peace...
Among the recent additions to the paintings of the Museum, are four Italian paintings presented by M. Durand-Ruel, including a late Venetian "Adoration of the Magi." A new Daumier drawing entitled "The Butcher", acquired by the Museum through the Alpheus Hyatt Purchasing Fund, is considered one of Daumier's finest works...
...exhibition of eclectic painters, including Van Dyck, Ribera, Magnasco, and Caravaggio, has been arranged in gallery XVII on the second floor of the Museum. Of particular interest to students of Ingres is a late Venetian "Adoration of the "Magi", recently presented to the Museum by M. Durand-Ruel, which hung for many years in the studio of Ingres in Rome...