Pictures and the Picturegoer (Jan-Dec 1925)

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20 P/chures end Pichuretyver I suggested to him that he arrange with the Mayor for a big showing of my picture, ' The Four Horsemen, charge enormous prices for it and use MARCH 1925 the money to accomplish his end of the restoration. I would arrange to get a print for him. I told him that I would get into communication with the proper people at once and if he would go about his end of the arrangement, it would only be a matter of a few days. Campo Basso, Sept. 17th. [ am leaving Campo Basso to-day. I have arranged for the showing of the picture, and my brother has satisfactorily completed his -end of the project. He says that he will write me all the details The Coliseum, Rome, which Rudolph visited many times during his stay. dustry " from a more or less amateurish and clap trap affair to an industry ranked among the largest and most important in the world. I told him of all the worthwhile men connected with it. University men. Business men. Artists, too. And we talked a great deal about the educational end of pictures, what they can accomplish where textbooks and talking all but fail .... He had never seen a picture of mine, though by this time I was not surprised at that. And the result was that he knew really very little indeed about my work and what it meant. I had sent him clippings from time to time, but a great many of them had never reached him and as he doesn't read English anyway, he hadn't gained much from me. As for the magazines I had sent him from time to time, fan magazines with interviews, etcetera, in them, and trade magazines with, reports of my pictures, he had never received any of them. I rather imagine that the gentlemen at the frontier kept the magazines for themselves. L_Ic asked me if I would arrange for him to see one of my pictures, and I told him that I certainly would. I must see about that to-morrow. Then, as we were talking, an idea came to both of us. Way up on top of Campo Basso, right on top of a high commanding hill, there is a Castle, Castle Mon forte, which belonged to the Duke of Mon forte. It is a historic fortress here in Italy throughout the period of feudal wars. ^i It was built in 1100 by one of the Dukes, and both the castle and the fortress have figured in many battles. It came out in the course of my brother's talk that the city wants to make this castle into a war monument. Their plan is to reconstruct a part of it, and bring back the bodies of all the boys of Campo Basso who were killed in the war and bury them there. By so doing they would make of it a national monument to the heroes who died in the great war. They are, my brother told me, trying to raise the money to do this. of the reception of the picture, etcetera, when I get back to Nice. My brother wants me J.o stay here longer, but I want to get back to Nice in time to be able to stay there three or four days, and I can't do it if I get behind my schedule now. And I have to go back to Paris, too, because of business that has come up there. One thing I have noted in regard to my mind and temperament, where procrastination is concerned, and that i? that if I am ever led to neglect matter