Word: amsterdam
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Concertgebouw Orchestra of Amsterdam (Sun. 2:30 p.m., CBS). Eduard van Beinum conducts music by Schubert, Bruckner and Richard Strauss...
...planned. Late into the evening, Her Majesty would be compelled to spend her time sorting out that most un-Dutch of royal embarrassments: a Cabinet crisis. "A rather unusual phenomenon in the Netherlands," the Nieuwe Rotterdamse Courant termed it. "But there are moments in life," the Het Parool of Amsterdam told its readers, "when one has to make a decision...
Holland will stage performances in The Hague-Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and 13 cities and other towns (June 15-July 15). Besides the first-rate Concertgebouw and Hague Residentie orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic. Milan's La Scala opera and the New York City Ballet will perform...
...collection. Covered with coats of varnish. Hartford's new Rembrandt had to be painstakingly cleaned before the artist's original signature was uncovered. The date. 1655, placed the painting in the period when family misfortunes and declining popularity had led Rembrandt to retire to his house in Amsterdam's Jewish quarter. There he painted what he loved most: his companion and mistress Hendrickje, his ailing son Titus, and his magnificently wrought Biblical scenes. One problem still baffled experts. The three-quarter-length figure, dressed in the heavy folds of a reddish brown cloak, is a young...
...Dutch movie exhibitors found an effective answer to unkind movie critics. Two Hague movie houses took a sizable ad in a morning paper quoting from four unfavorable reviews by Hague critics and five favorable reviews by Amsterdam critics. The home and office telephone numbers of the Hague critics were printed, and readers who disagreed with them were respectfully urged to call up the critics and discuss the matter. By week's end one distraught Hague critic, with a ringing in his ear, was planning...