Word: amores
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Conant, Mrs. Leslie B. Cutler, Mrs. Robert H. Fernald, Mrs. Edward W. Forbes, Mrs. Vinton Freedley, Mrs. Theodore Frothingham, Jr., Mrs. W. Perrin Fuller, Mrs. David H. Fulton, Mrs. William T. Gardiner, Mrs. John W. Hallowell, Mrs. A. Chester Hanford, Mrs. Thomas J. Healey, Mrs. F. Harvey Hilton, Mrs. Amor Hollingsworth, Mrs. James M. Hunnewell, Mrs. James L. Huntington, Mrs. Shaun Kelly, Mrs. Delmar Leighton...
...Altdorfers and two portraits by famed Bartholomaeus Bruyn. In the 81 paintings and 150 drawings left, there was still enough to make the show one of the most important of the 1936 season. Possibly the high spot of the whole exhibit is Lucas Cranach's famed Venus und Amor, the property of the Nűrnberg National Museum. On this panel medieval Artist Cranach shows a slim Venus, draped in a diaphanous veil wagging a warning finger at a pug-nosed Cupid who has pulled a honeycomb from a tree, and suffered severe bee stings as a result...
...black trunks, black mitts, a black cape and a lyre on his back, expressed his sorrow by thrusting his fists into the air, swaying before a funereal mound which could easily have covered scores of Eurydices. Muscular William Dollar, a native of St. Louis, leaped into the picture as Amor (Love), wearing white tights and great white wings. Dancer Dollar's function was to lead Dancer Christensen to the entrance of Hades, a giant cage contraption which housed furies and scarlet demons who proved no more terrifying than Punch & Judy puppets...
...performers in the pit were no better than average. The Orpheus was Contralto Anna Kaskas from Bridgeport, Conn.; the Amor, Maxine Stellman from Brattleboro, Vt.; the Eurydice, plump Jeanne Pengelly, a native of Toronto, whose part was danced by pretty, half-clad Daphne Vane. Conductor Richard Hageman, rejoining the Metropolitan after an absence of 14 years, did his best by the stately, sculptured score. But only those, who were smart enough to close their eyes could reap its full benefit...
Tuesday Evening, May 15 *Hungarian March, "Rakoczy" Berlioz *Overture to "Der Freischutz" Weber *"March of the Little Lead Soldiers" Pierne *"Pagliacci," Fantasia Leoncayallo *"Danse Macabre," Symphonic Poem Saint-Saens *"Drink to Me Only With Thine Eyes" Arranged by Pochon *"William Tell," Overture Rossini *"El Amor Brujo" ("Love, the Sorcerer") de Falla Hans Wiener and his Dance Group...