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...Pepita she now offers the two latest portraits of her "too prodigal, too amorous, too weak, too indolent, and too melancholy" family. The first is of her gypsy grandmother Pepita Duran y Ortega; the second of her mother, who died last year at 73. Tall, Andalusian Pepita was descended from a hot-blooded family of old-clothes peddlers, smugglers, bandits fruit sellers, gypsies. Too clumsy to succeed as a dancer in Madrid, in Paris her beauty and Spanish charm were more than enough. Tall, blond, 25-year-old Lione' Sackville-West, of the British diplomatic corps, made...
...Liberty (adapted from Michel Duran by Sidney Howard; Gilbert Miller, producer). The news about Ode to Liberty is that Ina Claire is now wearing her blonde hair piled in curls on top of her head like a charming Billiken. This hair dress and the Claire glamour manage to keep fluttering this airy nothing of a play. It concerns a Parisian lady who has left her overbearing banker husband for a small apartment of her own. There she unexpectedly finds herself playing unwilling hostess to a Communist fugitive (Walter Siezak, ingratiating young hero of Music in the Air). He is supposed...
...upright father even decided in favor of naughty Paris. He had faith in his son. Never was faith better placed. Under Carolus Duran, dutiful young John Sargent so "persevered in the Pine Arts" that he had no time for Parisian gaiety. In a negligee Bohemia his dress remained correct. Amid fads and fashions ornate, voluptuous, bizarre, he followed only Frans Hals and Velasquez. He learned, thoroughly, to build on true middle values, to accent with strictest simplicity...
...Jean Duran Agriculture...
...British newspaper syndicate and had the pleasure, next day, of reading florid obituaries of himself in the English and Continental press. He read how he, the son of a New England physician, had been born in Florence, Italy, studied art in France, painted a portrait of his teacher, Carolus Duran, which was exhibited in the Salon of 1877 and made him famous at 21. He read of the many commissions that were showered upon him from the month of that first success to the moment of his lamentable assassination by the syndicate's reporter. He ran his eye through...