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DIED. VERA HRUBA RALSTON, 79, Czech-born Olympic skater and Ice Capades sweetheart who went on to a less stellar career in B movies during the 1940s and '50s (The Lady and the Monster; I, Jane Doe); of cancer; in Santa Barbara, Calif. She added the name Ralston (from a breakfast cereal) because people stumbled over Hruba...
...years to perform in Strindberg's The Dance of Death, which opens March 4. "I'm so excited about working in this street," he says. "The strip club is next door to a primary school! And there's a bomb site that hasn't been cleared up since the 1940s. It's a fun, vivid world." MCKELLEN'S most vivid role may be the powerful and sagacious magician Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings, but he looks remarkably human as he reclines in an armchair dressed in rubber slippers, leather trousers and blue T shirt. After years...
Throughout his life Delaney struggled with mental illness and poverty. In the 1930s and 1940s, the artist’s close friends Ella Fitzgerald and James Baldwin inspired him with their musical and literary works. The Sert show includes several of the cityscapes of New York painted during this time...
Never attack a violent dictator; just wait for him to act, and when he does, lose pathetically. That seems to summarize the European strategy in World War II and even today. Back in the 1940s, America and the U.S.S.R. saved Europe. Today the U.S. is again taking responsibility for doing the dirty work. Europe should shut up and be grateful. ODED WOLFF Haifa, Israel...
...talent among the Abstract Expressionists. Pigeon-holed as a “Negro artist” by early critics, Delaney nonetheless lived a life of love and art. This retrospective of his work, from the portraits and cityscapes done in New York’s Greenwich Village in the 1940s to the abstract work that followed his 1953 move to Paris, demonstrate his wide vocabulary of topics and emotional colors. Through May 4. Hours: Mon.-Sat., 10 a.m.–5 p.m., Sun. 1–5 p.m. Free admission. Sert Gallery, Carpenter Center, 24 Quincy...