Word: venuses
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Villa Borghase-next to the Vatican the chiefest art treasure-house in Rome. He may have reflected that Napoleon, to whom he is so often compared, placed his sister, the beautiful Pauline Bonaparte, in that Villa. She is there still- reclining in marble on a marble couch, as Venus, whom she much resembled. Her husband, Camillo Filippo Ludovico, Prince Borghese, was paid another great compliment by Napoleon. The Corsican, with characteristic economy, left his beautiful sister at Rome, but caused the most valuable pieces in the Borghese' collection to be conveyed to Paris. They have never been returned. Strolling...
...picture as a CRIMSON photographer added to the already thick could of smoke from the flashes which shrouded her dressing room. Then she turned to the CRIMSON reporter, who had tried unsuccessfully in New York at a previous time to get an interview with the star of "The American Venus." "I was sorry," she declared, "but we have to be careful in the metropolis. It's different here in Boston...
Miss Lanphier has been appearing in connection with the "American Venus," in which she is started with Esther Ralston. The picture appeared at the Metropolitan Theatre two weeks ago, and has moved on, so she is now there on the same program with "The Grand Duchess and the Waiter starring Adolphe Menjou. She expressed a wish that she could visit the University, but time would not permit...
...contact with Asia or any other part of the Old World. The earliest of their dates carved in stone which has yet been found corresponds to 98 B. C. in our calendar. Harvard University recently announced Dr. Spinden's discovery that the beginnings of the annual calendar and the Venus calendar of the Mayas must be carried back to dates between...
Metropolitan--"The American Venus", with Esther Ralston: To be reviewed this week...