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Show "BEifflBBEaBair A photo-serial in six chapters based on the ALEXANDER KORDA motion (P 11 A P T T P T picture production starring CHIES LEiEIOHTOH and.relec.sed ihru UNITED ARTISTS UillMl I Lit J Forlorn since the death of his devoted wife. Saskia, and ruined by his improvidence and the slanders of his enemies, ene-mies, Rembrandt, greatest Dutch painter, finds happiness happi-ness with Henrickje Stoffels, a servant girl, who is to become his second wife. His happiness is not to endure, however. Henrickje, whose loyalty and common sense have begun to restore the artist to his former rich estate, has been desperately ill for a long time a fact she conceals con-ceals from Rembrandt. She dies, and Rembrandt again 1 faces loneliness and poverty such as he has never known. Still he paints desperately, feverishly, against time now, for the artist is no longer young. Unable to pay for models, he frequents the Ghettos in search of subjects, and makes the street beggars his companions. They become the models for his heroic paintings; they are the kings and heroes of his Biblical canvases. All his belongings have been pawned to buy paints and brushes. He exists by peddling his etchings from door to door for a few pennies apiece. "Learn to beg," advises his beggar friend. But Rembrandt is proud even in poverty. j |