New Solid Oil Paints Stir French Art Circles
Paris observers report a French artist J Raffaelli has unveiled solid oil paints sold as ready to use sticks. The system eliminates palettes brushes and mixing delays, promising bold luminosity and easier retouching, with the painter claiming benefits over traditional liquid oils and pastels. If proven, the method could transform painting workflow and permanence.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Francis Warington Dawson
Paris
J. &. Raffaelli
van Eyck
Raffaelli
Farfacet
M. Raffaelli
London Theater Gossip on Maeterlinck and Bernhardt
The piece surveys Maeterlinck's Monna Vanna with a moral lens, mentions the British censor George Alexander, and notes the continent’s reaction. It covers Sarah Bernhardt’s Paris and London plans, Coquelin père et fils at the Garrick, Langtry’s tour, Frohman’s European games, and other 19th century theater moves including Adams, Stuart, Potter, Fitch, and Amelia Bingham’s London prospects.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Cable
George Alexander
Bedford
Sapho
Manna Vanna
Redford
Maeterlinck Society
Thomas Hardy
Mrs. Craigie
George Meredith
William Archer
Maurice Hewlett
Swinburne
Lucas Malet
Frederick Harrison
The
Times
Maurice Maetersinck
Pisa
Prinzivalle
Guido
Giovanna
Mr. Frohman
London
Maude Adams
Paris
Leslie Stuart
Paul Potter
Wall Street
Bhdand May
Granada Bread Riot Destroys Shops in Hungry Siege
In Granada on June 26 a thousand hungry women led a riot, sacking bakeries and shops after bread rose to 24 centimos. They looted food, attacked police, and shouted for Bread at 8 centimos, until a cavalry regiment dispersed the mob. A woman died after nursing an infant then collapsing. The crowd roamed cave districts and city streets, threatening the governor general and threatening a broader strike for affordable bread.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Granada
Spain
Albatein
Renada
Little Rock
Toynes
Maria
Aly
Thatcin
Y Sil To-Do
St. Emanuel
Captain Generality
Monaco Prince Gets Millions in Secret Monaco Contract
Nice June 28 A dramatic divorce settlement shifts thirty million francs from Alice Heine to Albert I of Monaco. The prince plans to invest much of the funds in science after setting aside funds for the throne and arranging a substantial dower for Alice. Louis, son of Albert from a prior marriage, figures in the backstory of palace tensions and De Lara clashes.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
de Lara
Prince’ Louis
Monaco
Alice Henne
Prince Louis
Monte Carlo
Prince Louia
Albert
Mary Douglas Hamilton
Vatican
Pesteties
Austria
Louis
Alice
Alba
Aries
Duke of Richelieu
Kitchener's Successor An Officer Of Ability
London June 21 One of the Boer war’s results is to elevate capable officers. General Neville Lyttleton, son of a baron, rises to command in the Transvaal and Orange Free State. A veteran of Fenian raids in Canada, India, Ireland, Gibraltar, Tel el Kebir, the Nile, Khar toum, and Natal, he brings broad experience and steady leadership into the post.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Curtis Brown
Ondon
England
Kitchener
Transvaal
Orange
Neville Lyttleton
Rifle Brigade
Canada
India
Ireland
Gibraltar
Tel-el-Keblir
Nile
Khartoum
Natal
Alxty
Princess Alice and the Monte Carlo Contract Tale
Fragmentary account recalls Princess Alice resenting her husband Albert's renewed contract terms with the Casino of Monte Carlo. The Casino owners appoint her sovereign of the arts, enabling an opera program to promote the gambling enterprise. Isidore Cohen, known as De Lara, is linked as a leading figure in the opera venture, while Albert’s revamped revenue deal of 500,000 per year is noted alongside courtly intrigues and marriages.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sea Bath Society
Albert
Alice
Italan
Casino
Monte Carlo
Trav
London
Paris
de Lara
Isidore Cohen
Lara
Portugal
Milan
Mary Douglas Hamilton
de Lara Albert
Marsenet
Jongleuar
Notre Dame
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J. F. Raf
France
Maeterlinck
Geryette Leblanc
Materlinks
Manna Wanna
Vanna
Florentine
Pringsvaile
Printzivalle
Vanena
Gneral
Pringivaile
Pringivalle
Her Majesty's Theater
Launcelot
Guinevere
Francesca da Rimini
Sarah Bernhardt
King Arthur
Grande Revue
Hamlet
Sir Launcelot
Bernhardt
Halt Caine
America
Eternal
Amelia Bingham
United States
Che Jansen
Eleanor Calhoun
Everyman
Miss Calhoun
Madame de la Necklace
Étta Fa
Promen
Tennessean
Dedman
Messphis
Soe Ee Ie
Sap Cote
Uit Pledical Co
St. Louis, Mo
Prince
Alice Heine
New Orleans
Heloise
Comtesse D
Heine
Elvil
Principality
Puia
Bea | Bath Society
Richelieu
Alice Helne
Servia
Miss Pullman
Chicago
George Pullman
Neville
Lord Kitchener
Rhine and
Neckar
Germany
Oe U
Lightning Medicine Co
Rock ‘Island
Nature
Jaco
Pharmaly
Nhchive
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