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Stocky, tousle-haired Pablo Ruiz Picasso looks like an extremely able Spanish mechanic, will be 50 years old on Oct. 23. He was born in Malaga in Andalusia,* the son of an Italian mother, a Spanish drawing-teacher father. From his earliest childhood it was understood that he was to be an artist. He lived successively in Barcelona, Madrid, finally Paris-always drawing. Paris became his spiritual as well as his physical home. Today it is as unfair to consider him simply a Spanish artist as it is to consider George Bernard Shaw an Irish dramatist...
Pablo Picasso has had a profound influence on contemporary French Art, not only in the field of painting; but in the graphic arts, as a sculptor, and as a talented stage designer. He was born in Malaga in 1881, taking the name of his mother, who taught him the foundations of the painter's art. His earliest paintings, from 1901 to 1907, were of the symbolist school...
...meal in his favorite Spanish restaurant in Cavendish Square, dined on an annual dish, "Salad of the Gardens of Spain." Concomitants: cold sliced chicken reposing on lemon-yellow hearts of lettuce, criss-crossed with ribbons of pimiento, topped by a mold of fruit salad-sliced oranges, large green Malaga grapes, thin strips of pineapple- all chilled and jelled in fruit juices. Gourmet Alfonso then finished the "Gardens" off with cubes of melon and succulent strawberries soaked in rare old sherry, enjoyed himself thoroughly...
William Kissam Vanderbilt, pausing last week at Malaga, Spain, on his round-the-world yachting trip, gave a too large check to a Malaga merchant. Honest, the tradesman offered change. The Vanderbilt answer, as reported by the New York Times: "Keep the change, and the microbes with...
...ports of call: Paris, Bordeaux, Biarritz, Perpignan, Barcelona, Alicante, Malaga, Seville, Tangier, Casablanca, Marrakesh, Fez, Oran, Algiers, Biskra, Tunis, Catania, Naples, Rome, Venice, Pisa, Marseille, Lyons...