Word: luxembourger
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...wholehearted Rabelaisian (TIME, April 21); of heart failure, at Woodstock, N. Y. A great-grandson of John Jacob Astor related to three other venerable New York families (the Stuyvesants, Beekmans, Livingstons), he painted vivid, crowded screens, some of which were bought by the Metropolitan Museum in New York the Luxembourg in Paris. He decorated ballrooms, bedrooms, swimming pools for many a tycoon. Of his three brothers, William Astor was an African explorer, had his leg amputated because it bothered him; John Armstrong (Chaloner) made a spectacular escape from Bloommingdale Asylum, changed his name, lives now in Virginia, legally sane...
John Henry Wigmore. Belgium, Bulgaria, Luxembourg, Portugal...
...Museum of Modern Art, the American Luxembourg, was founded last spring by a group of art followers who felt that the Metropolitan Museum in New York was not keeping up adequately with the modern art that has arisen in the past few years. For this reason the new museum was founded, as a place where modern works of the most advanced types could be exhibited, and, if they proved worthy, be moved to the older gallery for permanent showing...
...decoration "because there seemed to be a call for that sort of thing." Shortly thereafter he got a divorce, and, exhilarated, turned out an amazing series of panels and screens, one of which, showing a horde of giraffes nibbling the tender branches of birch trees, now stands in the Luxembourg Museum...
...Count of Luxembourg is Franz Lehar's famed operetta about an impoverished resident of the Latin Quarter who gets paid to marry an unknown beauty and then, obviously, falls in love with her. Milton Aborn's revival company intones several splendid tunes you will recognize if you are old enough: "Love Breaks Every Bond," "Are You Going to Dance?" "I'm in Love...