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Before dawn one morning last week, workmen swarmed through the 1,216 acres of the biggest show on earth. Over subway entrances and roadway gates, on the Perisphere, around the Great White Way, on scores and scores of walls agleam with 100 tons of new paint, huge signs appeared: HELLO, FOLKS! The World's Fair of 1940 in New York (official abbreviation: Forty Fair) was ready to open...
...Metropolitan Opera House hummed its loudest and busiest. Every half minute, a notable trod down a plush aisle: a social lioness, jewels agleam, stalked her stately way into a well-known box; this distinguished musician, that famed diplomat?they kept the audience craning necks, peering into programs, discussing personalities. The most brilliant gathering of the, year, had assembled to hear the first U. S. opera commissioned by Gatti-Casazza, The King's Henchman. A half-hour before the tall yellow curtains parted, the standees were under full pressure. Many of these people were skeptical. They said: "Gatti is a shrewd...
...stillness, their clarity, to Rio last week repaired Zarh H. M. Pritchard,* painter. He paints pictures of the deep sea. Where the coral spreads its fan, where sea-grass lifts and sways to currents vague as wind, and blunt-nosed fishes ply, this way and that, their white bellies agleam, their eyes phosphorescent, there goes Painter Pritchard in a kind of diving suit. His pictures are hung in the Natural History Museum, Manhattan, in many European galleries. Says...