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"Mr. Muggs Steps Out is a 1943 American film directed by William Beaudine. Plot Much to the despair of her husband John (Emmett Vogan), wealthy New York socialite Margaret Morgan (Betty Blythe) hires former criminals Masie O'Donnell (Patsy Moran) and Butch Grogan (Eddie Gribbon) to be her house servants. When she goes to court because her daughter Brenda (Joan Marsh) has been arrested for reckless driving, Margaret is moved to hire Muggs (Leo Gorcey, who has been arrested for vagrancy and being a public nuisance, after the judge insists that he get a legitimate job. Now a chauffeur, Muggs brings the whole East Side Kids gang with him and puts them to work polishing cars. Muggs is instructed on proper etiquette, and when an engagement party is held for Brenda and her conservative fiancé Virgil (Stanley Brown), Muggs and the gang serve the food. At the end of the evening, one of the guests discovers that her diamond necklace is missing, and John accuses the East Side Kids of the theft. However, everyone recalls seeing a stranger at the party, whom Maisie now remembers as someone she met at Danceland, a dance hall on the lower East Side. Muggs convinces John not to call the police until he and the boys have had a chance to investigate. Maisie goes downtown to Danceland with Brenda, who dresses up like a gangster's moll in order to fit in. They meet with gangster Dips Nolan (Gabriel Dell) and learn that he plotted the jewelry heist with Diamonds, who was the stranger at the party. Nolan becomes suspicious when naïve Virgil, who has followed Brenda to the dance hall, uses her real name and asks him to throw a fake fight so that he can prove his manhood. Nolan instead knocks Virgil out and kidnaps Brenda. Muggs and Glimpy (Huntz Hall), meanwhile, see Diamonds leave for the dance hall and search his apartment. Although they find nothing, Diamonds and Nolan return with Brenda, and the entire East Side Kids gang captures the criminals and retrieves the diamonds. Later, Brenda is pleased to find that Virgil's East Side adventure has transformed him into a more confident and adventurous person. Notes *Buddy Gorman and Jimmy Strand join the East Side Kids. *Leo Gorcey's wife Kay Marvis appears briefly as a dancer. Cast =The East Side Kids= *Leo Gorcey as Ethelbert 'Muggs' McGinnis *Huntz Hall as Glimpy Freedhoff *Billy Benedict as Pinky (a.k.a. Skinny) *Bobby Stone as Speed *Buddy Gorman as Skinny *David Durand as Danny *Jimmy Strand as Rocky =Additional Cast= *Gabriel Dell as Dips Nolan *Joan Marsh as Brenda Murray *Patsy Moran as Maisie O'Donnell *Eddie Gribbon as Butch Grogan *Halliwell Hobbes as Charney, the Butler *Stanley Brown as Virgil Wellington Brooks III *Betty Blythe as Margaret Murray *Emmett Vogan as John Murray *Nick Stuart as Diamond Hamilton *Noah Beery as Judge *Lottie Harrison as Elizabeth, the Dowager *Kay Marvis as Dancer *Charles McMurphy as Cop (uncredited) External links * * Category:1943 films Category:American films Category:1943 comedy films Category:English-language films Category:American black-and-white films Category:Monogram Pictures films Category:Films directed by William Beaudine Category:Films produced by Sam Katzman Category:American comedy films "
"Portrait of Jacopo Strada by Titian, 1567The date of Strada's visit to Venice, and consequently the dates of his and his son's portraits, was established by Heinrich Zimmermann, "Zur richtigen datirung eines Portraits von Tizian in der Wiener kaiserlichen Gemälde-Galerie", Mittheilungen des Institutes für österrreichische Geschichtsforschung 6 (1901:830-57). (Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna) Jacopo Strada (Mantua, 1507 – Prague 1588) was an Italian polymath courtier, painter, architect, goldsmith, inventor of machines, numismatist, linguist, collector, and merchant of works of art.For Strada's role as a merchant of works of art, see Dirk Jacob Jansen, "Jacopo Strada et le commerce d'art", Revue de l'art 77 (1987:11-21; John F, Hayward, "Jacopo Strada, XVIth century antique dealer, Art & Auction 1971-12 (1973:68-74). His portrait by Titian has kept his image familiar.His career at the court of Maximilian II, Holy Roman Emperor, is one of four selected as exemplars by Howard Louthan, The Quest for Compromise: Peacemakers in Counter-Reformation Vienna (Cambridge University Press) 1997. . Biography He is supposed to have received early training as a goldsmith in the Mantua workshops of Giulio Romano; drawings of Giulio's Palazzo del Tè and of its painted interiors and those of the Palazzo Ducale at Mantua, datable 1567-68, are attributed to Jacopo Strada, intended for his Descrizione di tutta Italia.Egon Verheyen, "Jacopo Strada's Mantuan Drawings of 1567-1568" The Art Bulletin 49.1 (March 1967:62-70). From 1552 to 1555 he sojourned in Lyon and travelled to Rome in the service of Pope Paul III, and after his death his successor Marcellus II, upon whose sudden death he returned north. From 1556 onwards he settled at Vienna and from 1576 served as an official artist and architect to three successive Habsburg Holy Roman emperors, Ferdinand I, Maximilian II and Rudolph II. He also worked for Albert V, Duke of Bavaria, for whom he conceived the Antiquarium to house the antiquities at the Munich Residenz; the Roman sculptures that he assembled for the Duke may still be seen in the setting he devised there. He also served as the friend and trusted agent of the Augsburg patrician, humanist and book-collector, and a friend and advisor of Albrecht, the immensely rich Jakob Fugger (1516–1557), for whom he scouted works of art in Italy from his headquarters in Mantua. On Fugger's commission he assembled a comprehensive array of coats of arms of Italian nobility, filling fifteen volumes, for Fugger's library. A suite of drawings of ancient coins, that Strada did for Fugger, has found its way into Duke Albrecht's collection and is preserved at Gotha.Verheyen 1967:64. In 1544 he wed Grafin Ottilia Schenk von Roßberg in Lyon. He moved to Nuremberg in 1546, where he was granted the city's freedom as a goldsmith in 1549. In 1556 he moved to Vienna, taking a house that still stands, now Bankgasse 12, and putting his antiquarian knowledge at the disposal of the Habsburg court, and rewarded with the care of the imperial treasury. He worked as architect to Ferdinand I in the ongoing construction of the Hofburg. In December 1566 he journeyed to Albrecht's court in Munich, to oversee the Antiquarium planned in conjunction and competition with Fugger, returning to Vienna in 1568. For Schloss Bučovice near Brünn he provided plans for the architect Jan Šember von Boskovic. For Schloss Neugebäude, begun from scratch (neu gebäude) as a hunting box by Maximilian II in 1568, no architect is reported in surviving documents, but its advanced integration with gardens makes Strada the most likely candidate; its construction, altered by numerous minute changes, abruptly came to an end with the Emperor's death in 1576.Schloss Neugebäude. The circumstances surrounding the making of the Titian portrait show Strada in a less favourable light. He visited Venice in 1567-68 to try and acquire for Albrecht the famous collection of art and antiquities left by Gabriele Vendramin (died 1552, and also now mainly remembered as the subject of a Titian portrait, the Portrait of the Vendramin Family). This entailed breaking the terms of Vendramin's will, and in the end the attempt failed. Another deal was hatched with Titian while the negotiations proceeded; Strada was to authenticate for the Emperor Maximilian studio repetitions of works that Titian had painted for Philip II of Spain as originals from the hand of the master himself. In return Titian was to paint Strada's portrait, and to receive a fur from him; perhaps the one that seems to be falling from his shoulders in the portrait. Knowledge of the deal comes from a letter to Fugger by Nicolò Stoppio, a Venetian dealer who was Strada's rival in Fugger's service; this claims Titian disliked Strada, and thought him a charlatan. Although the brilliant quality of the portrait has always been recognised, art historians agree the depiction of Strada is not flattering.Fletcher, Jennifer, 34 and 37, Jaffé, david, 168, both in David Jaffé (ed), Titian, The National Gallery Company/Yale, London 2003, The pose is taken from a tomb relief of about 1335 that Titian would have known, where a nobleman offers God his soul, represented as a naked baby. However, in his "expensive den",Jaffé, 168 Strada makes a very different offer to a client: "He manhandles a Venus, whose pudica gesture is wittily cancelled out by his hand clamped on her breast. As a shady character, he has an exceptionally heavy chiaroscuro on his face. His crowning achievement, his works on numismatics (a mixture of erudition and nonsense) are significantly placed above his head. His social ambition is emphasised by Titian's late decision to double the loops of his chain."Fletcher, 37 The Antiquarium (begun 1568—71The design dated 1568 was discovered by Erich Hubala, "Ein Entwurf für das Antiquarium der Münchner Residenze 1568", Münchener Jahrbuch der bildenden Kunst, 9-10 (1958-59).) in the Munich Residenz He quit Albrecht's service about 1570. During 1571–1574 he compiled a catalogue of the surviving literature of Antiquity and compiled a lexicon. In 1574 his wife Ottilia died. At the end of the year, 27 December, he was accorded noble status. He demolished and rebuilt his dwelling, which housed his library of 3,000 volumes and his Kunstkammer.D.J. Jansen, "Jacopo Strada's antiquarian interests: a survey of his Musaeum and its purpose", Xenia 21 (1971:59-76. There he lived until his death, the honoured guest of the emperors. His Palais Strada stood as an eminent example of Late Renaissance architecture in the Simmering district of Vienna until it was demolished in 1875 in the rebuilding of the Wiener Burgtheater. In 1577 he published in Frankfurt-am-Main Sebastiano Serlio's seventh book of architecture,One of several being seen through the press at the time by his son Ottavio, according to a letter reported in Myra Nan Rosenfeld, "Sebastiano Serlio's Drawings in the Nationalbibliothek in Vienna for His Seventh Book on Architecture," The Art Bulletin 56.3 (September 1974:400-409) p. 401. with its original Italian text, which exists in manuscript on parchment, and Strada's Latin translation. In the introduction Strada reported that he had received the manuscript from Serlio himself in Lyon in 1550. "Portrait of Ottavio Strada" (1567) by Tintoretto He receives a cornucopia with coins from Fortuna while turning his back to Venus, an allusion to his study of ancient coins He died in Prague and is buried in the Church of St. Nicholas in the Malá Strana. His son, Ottavio Strada (1550–1607),His portrait by Tintoretto was painted about the same time as Titian's of his father. his assistant at the Hofburg, followed in his father's footsteps in the service of the Imperial court as expert in works of art. Ottavio's daughter Katharina was a favourite of Emperor Rudolph II, and bore him six children. Bibliography * Jansen, Dirk Jacob. Urbanissime Strada : Jacopo Strada and cultural patronage at the Imperial Court. Maastricht, 2015. Doctoral thesis. * Lawrence, Sarah. Jacopo Strada (1510 – 1588). Mannerist Splendor: Extravagant Designs for a Royal Table. San Francisco: Serge Sorokko Gallery, 2007. * Panofsky, Erwin. Problems in Titian, Mostly Iconographic. New York University Press, 1969. 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"William Hamilton Merritt III (June 8, 1855 – October 26, 1918) was a Canadian soldier, author, and mining engineer.Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: Merritt, William Hamilton. http://www.biographi.ca/009004-119.01-e.php?&id;_nbr=7603&&PHPSESSID;=0r7c762ec31smtao0bcqqi0lm0 . University of Toronto/Université Laval, 2000. His grandfather, William Hamilton Merritt, was a politician in Ontario. Confusingly, his father and cousin also shared his name; even though he is now known as William Hamilton Merritt III, during his life, he did not refer to himself as the third."Lieutenant-Colonel William Hamilton Merritt III." Nicola Valley Historical Quarterly, Spring 2007: 21.3. After completing schooling in Ontario at Trinity College School and Upper Canada College, Merritt studied at Clifton College and the Royal School of Mines in England, where he received his A.R.S.M. (Associate of the Royal Society of Mines). Upon returning to Canada, he published pamphlets on mining and taught at the School of Mining in Kingston, Ontario. He was elected vice-president of the Ontario Mining Institute. Merritt also pursued a career as a soldier. In 1882 he joined the Governor-General's Bodyguard, where he was promoted quickly through the ranks. In 1903, he became lieutenant-colonel. Merritt served in the Northwest Rebellion and the Boer War, but by 1914 he was too old to serve in the First World War. He maintained an interest in military matters, though, and published a book, Canada and National Service, which advocated compulsory military service. The city of Merritt, British Columbia is named after William Hamilton Merritt III, due to his role in bringing the railway through the Nicola Valley. In 1890 he married Margaret Simpson, daughter of Toronto merchant Robert Simpson. In 1891, Merritt prospected for coal near where the city is today. Finding it, he organized the Nicola, Kamloops and Similkameen Coal and Railway Company to extend the rail line through to transport coal out of the valley. The railway also allowed settlement and industry to flourish in the valley. As demand for coal grew, the company was eventually bought by the Canadian Pacific Railway. References External links Category:1855 births Category:1918 deaths Category:Deaths from Spanish flu Category:Canadian Militia officers Category:Canadian non-fiction writers Category:Canadian mining engineers Category:Canadian military personnel of the Second Boer War "