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...Gang's All Here. Artist Russell Patterson designed the costumes, Oscar Hammerstein II helped the direction, Colyumist Russel Grouse wrote the book, Tilly Losch staged the ballet. The cast includes: luscious Gina Malo (Sons O' Guns); red-headed Zelma O'Neal (Good News); silly Ruth Tester (Second Little Show); the white-faced team of Shaw & Lee, droll Tom Howard and ingratiating Ted Healy. And seldom has wealth been more hopelessly, tastelessly squandered...
Gleyre was born at Chevilly of French Swiss origin in 1806 and died in Paris in 1874. His early training was begun in Lyon, where he studied under an artist named Bounefond and in 1825 he went to Paris to begin his major training. In 1828 he travelled in Italy, copying Giotto frescoes in Padus, visiting Florence and Rome. In the latter places he spent four years, and in the year 1833 was represented as an exhibitor in the Paris' Salon...
...exhibition of the prints and drawings of the Spanish artist Goya will start today and run until Wednesday, April 1, in the Fogg Art Museum. Many fine impressions of Goya's most important prints, along with some rare proofs have been lent by Philip Bofer '21 of New York and W. G. R. Allen '03 of Boston...
...great series, "The Caprices," "Disasters of War," "Proverbs," "Bull-fights," and "Bulls of Bordeaux." Especially interesting are the "Disasters of War" series, which was inspired by the horrors accompanying the Napoleonic Wars in Spain during Goya's lifetime, and the "Bulls of Bordeaux" prints, which were done when the artist was nearly eighty...
...Copenhagen, Denmark. Born in Prague. Czechoslovakia, she came to the U.S. at the age of 17, tiny, graceful, with the mop of gold-bronze hair which always distinguished her. She trouped with "The Four Leamy Ladies," joined Ringling Bros.-Barnum & Bailey circuses in 1920. Thereafter she was the only artist to appear alone in her act, with single spotlight and bass drums booming. Her most famed stunt was "the giant half flange": rolling herself upward on a suspended rope, swinging her body over her shoulder while hanging 50 ft. from the tanbark. Her record: 249 turns. Her first husband...