Parents In Paris And Studied: GREEN, Julian (1900- ), French-American novelist. He was Tx)rn on Sept. 6, 1900, to American parents in Paris and studied there and at the University of Virginia. His first novel Mont-Cinere (1926; Eng. tr., Avarice House, 1927) was very favorably received. It was followed by Adrienne Mesurat (1927; The Closed Garden,1928). Leviathan (1929; The Dark Journey,
1929) was awarded the Harper Prize as was Memories of Happy Days (1942), his only major work in English. During World War II, Green served in the U. S. Army; after the war he lived permanently in Paris.but insists that they are relative to the needs of the community as a whole and to moral ends. Green also attacked the empiricism of Hume and Spencer.
ROBERTS, Howard, American sculptor: b. Philadelphia, April 9, 1843; d. Paris, April 19, 1WO. He studied at the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts and in 1866 went to Paris where he studied under Dumont and Gumery at the ficole des Beaux-Arts. Returning to Philadelphia in 1871 he established his studio there. During a second sojourn in Paris (1873-1876) he produced La Premiere Pose which earned him "iie of the three medals awarded to American sculptors at the Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition of 1876. Other works of note are his statue "I Robert Fulton for the Rotunda of the National Capitol, Hypatia and Eleanor in the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, and Hester Prynne.
ROD, rod, Edouard, Swiss author: b. Nyc Switz., April 31, 1857; d. Grasse, Jan. 29, 19 He studied at Lausanne and Berlin, became edit of the Revue Contemporaine at Paris in 18! succeeded Monnier in the chair of comparati literature at the University of Geneva in 18i but subsequently returned to Paris and became collaborator on the Correspondent, the Rez des Deux Mondes and other periodicals. |