Word: fontainebleau
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...shocked by their state of decay, gave the Comité $1,000,000. His workmen did a thorough Rockefeller job of repair. Later Mr. Rockefeller gave $2,080,000 more, some of it to restore the War-shelled Cathedral of Reims and to put the château of Fontainebleau in shape...
...this point Murry stops his Autobiography. He does not tell of Katherine's last days, her death at the Gurdjieff Institute at Fontainebleau, his remarriage and subsequent vicissitudes. Two names that loomed large in Katherine Mansfield's life -the late Alfred Richard Orage and George Gurdjieff-he never mentions. Though he keeps picking away at the puzzle of his own personality through 496 pages, he never solves it. He admits his unpopularity: "There is more than one portrait of myself lurking in the pages of contemporary literature. . . . All alike are hostile: which is significant. . . . The main question among...
...huge, shaved head, piercing eyes, walrus mustache and bull-muscled frame. He is the strange head of an odd cult which such people as the late Novelist Katharine Mansfield, the late Editor Alfred Richard Orage of the New English Weekly have at one time or another espoused. At Fontainebleau, where Miss Mansfield died in 1924, Gurdjieff ran the Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man. He taught his followers intricate dances for which he composed 5,000 pieces of music. He enjoyed mirth, appeared to enjoy heroic rages, advocated intense awareness of every muscular function. Six years ago Gurdjieff arrived...
...singers signed up by Manager Johnson, the only tenor and the most notable acquisition is 32-year-old Charles Kullman. A Yale graduate born in New Haven, Kullman abandoned medicine to study at Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music and at Fontainebleau. Currently he is singing at the packjammed Salzburg music festival...
Mary Hoover studied painting with lusty George Luks and Provincetown's Charles W. Hawthorne. She won several scholarships, continued her work at Fontainebleau and at Munich, suddenly developed a great interest in modern young Spanish painters. The murals and zinc plate etchings of Luis Quintanilla in particular fascinated her. She pulled wires to see if she might study under him or be his assistant...