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...Henri-Marie Beyle, who called himself, among other pseudonyms, Baron de Stendhal-sensualist, cynic, soldier, exile, diplomat, author-wrote his first novel at 44 and said of himself: "Je serai compris ners 1900 [I shall be understood about...
...gallery of that great European banking family of whom Disraeli said to Queen Victoria: "I am of the opinion, madame, that there never can be too many Rothschilds." FORTUNE presented, by tribes, several dozen Rothschilds now living, including one-eyed Baron James, duelling Senator Maurice, fat doctor-playwright Baron Henri (under a parasol, sitting on a dead hippopotamus) and fatter Baron Lionel Walter, who collects fleas...
...Carnegie Institute International Exhibition in 1927, the first prize was awarded to Henri Matisse for his Still Life. Last week, according to Director of Fine Arts Homer Schiff Saint-Gaudens, the Carnegie Institute had successfully settled a second wreath on the wrinkled Matisse brow. Modernist Matisse would, it was announced, along with two other European and three U. S. artists, serve on the 1930 Carnegie jury; in order to do so, he would pay his first visit...
...exhibition of modern paintings anywhere in the world might look very different had Henri Matisse, at 22, taken his degree and become a lawyer, as he intended to do when he reached Paris from le Cateau. Possibly, since Matisse has never exhibited any stubborn allegiance to the errors of the past, it would merely have postponed his entrance into the École des Beaux-Arts and his training under Bouguereau, Gustave Moreau and Gérôme. The tradition of these ateliers has been carried on since by such conventionalists as George de Forest Brush...
Another time, Baron Henri de Rothschild asked her to a party on his yacht, along with Prince and Princess Olaf of Norway, and she gave a command performance for Viscount Lascelles. In the U. S. she has been practicing a new whirl the Alex Paulsen-which is a turn and a half in the air, the skater landing on one skate going backward. She skates a little every and between times dances, dines, goes the theatre...