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Show "PP!P1 P P i A photo-serial in six chapters based on the ALEX AND t$ KORDA notion PJIAPTfE ! Li B&1 b ITS E3 ES EJ I picture production starring CKRRLCS LSUCH'l&Z on, "MIO ARTISTS J1 3 1- . .,.,,..-,... , , ....-. i .j.TO-sjr iiwM.KS'!8 : rtr .i fr ir.ssms; &yatuiuumMm'u, Amoterdam in the year 1642 a prosperous seaport, center of world trade, and possessor ot rich art treasures. It's chief pride, however, is Rembrandt van Rijn, son of a Leyden miller, but recognized universally as the great-est great-est living artist. Rembrandt is now at the height of his powers, prosperous and happy, secure in the love of his wife, Saskia, to whom he is entirely devoted. He spends his money as freely as he earns it, lives in full measure, and paints rich canvases, vigorous and colorful. He is a proud man. "I don't want fame," he insists, "I want independence." He has many friends, but he also has enemies, smug burghers antagonized by his bristly manner man-ner and his unwillingness to compromise. Chief among these enemies are the members of Captain Banning Cocq's company of civil guards, composed of the wealthiest citizens of Amsterdam. Nevertheless, they commission Rembrandt to paint them in a group portrait, por-trait, showing all of them resplendent in full uniform. Rembrandt displays considerable reluctance; he is at work on a portrait of his wife, which is more important to him. Friends persuade him, however, to undertake i the commission, a truly magnificent one, at a price never c before paid to a Dutch painter. Rembrandt rushes home j to give the news to his wife, and finds her dead. She s has been ill for a long time, but has bravely conca :'. . fc from him her illness. 1 M - r |