Word: barcelona
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...exhibition this fall is the result of favorable comment upon a similar exhibit held last year in Barcelona, by the Branhaus when they represented Germany in the International Exhibition. Among their artists are Lyonel Feininger, Paul Klee, and Von der Rohe...
From 75,000 people-reputedly the biggest crowd that ever watched a sporting event in Spain-a roar went up. Paulino Uzcudun, Basque woodchopper who for several years has been an exacting and dangerous trial horse for U. S. heavyweights, rushed out of his corner in Montjuich Stadium, Barcelona, and tried to hit Primo Camera, Italian Brobdingnag. His swing was short. Camera stretched out a long left hand and set him back on his heels. Squat, hairy-chested, his gold teeth gleaming in his dwarfish face, Paulino in his perpetual crouch, with his elbows swinging, resembled some kind of beetle...
...broiling Barcelona day last week 30,000 children marshaled by hundreds of priests gathered for an open air prayer festival at which it is a local custom to pray masked. Many and many a child sneaked off the sweltering mask during the long prayer, but all remained devoutly motionless kneeling under a grilling sun. When the prayer ended 28,000 tots rose and prepared to march away but 2,000 continued to kneel as though stupefied or paralyzed in the attitude of adoration. Doctors pronounced them sunstruck. Several hundred had to be rushed to hospitals, all were expected to recover...
...walls of Paris dealers some 400 of his works, most of which had been executed before the age of puberty. Excited dilettantes were lauding even the most execrable of the daubs. Revolted, Artist Picasso charged last week that the material had been obtained from his mother in Barcelona under false pretenses, filed a complaint charging fraud against persons unnamed, caused the Galeries Georges Bernheim and the Galeries Zak to be invaded by gendarmes who removed the offensive juvenilia...
...Bacchantes Gounod Vocal Club 3. DeW. Stetten Jr. '30, magician 4. Frasquita Lehar Waltz in A Major Brahms Mandolin Club 5. J. S. B. Archer '30, Tenor Soloist 6. Russian Fantasy arr. by Lange A Little Kiss Each Morning Woods Gold Coast Orchestra 7. Ein Karleksmatt 1 Barcelona Lindberg Selections from "Pinafore" Sullivan Mandolin Club 8. Harvard Club Special R. G. Edwards '31 and G. W. Briggs '31 9. Glorious Forever Rachmaninoff Old Man Noah arr. by Bartholemew The Longshoreman Chesham