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Oracles and angry gods submitted to a strange purpose last week in Philadelphia. They were the oracles and gods of ancient Greece which Sophocles told about in his Oedipus Rex 2,300 years ago. As of old they decreed and prophesied that Oedipus, son of Laius, would murder his father and marry his mother, Jocasta. They served also last week to provide the material for one of Conductor Leopold Stokowski's most ambitious flights into modernistic musical production: the first U. S. stage performances of the Oedipus Rex of Composer Igor Stravinsky, an opera-oratorio with a text recast...
...have risen again. But Managua, Nicaragua's capital, seems doomed. There is no money to rebuild the city. Last week the brewery and the power house were the only habitable buildings still standing. Hour by hour it became increasingly apparent that the city must be, like the ancient Mayan cities of Mexico, abandoned to the vulture, the lizard, the tapir, the rank jungle. Managua was a pretty city; in its 76 years as the capital it had flourished. Among the adobe shacks were handsome villas, gardened palaces, pretentious public buildings. Managua was chosen as the capital...
...their respective offices, high in the New York Central Building. One office (the door of which is rarely shut) is a harmony of brown oak with beamed ceiling, paneled walls, high bookshelves. The leaded panes of the windows are stained with nautical legends-fish, dolphins; a bit of an ancient maritime chart; a square rigger. A great tapestry alone adorns the walls. Here, at a massive oak desk sits the massive youngest Scripps, editorial director of 25 newspapers, amid a sombre ruggedness that seems a filial translation of the father's hardiness complex...
...basis of the theory that the cup used by Christ and his disciples at the Last Supper was preserved and, perhaps several years after the Supper, fittingly decorated. The outer shell is a sheathing of elaborately sculptured silver, its gilded decorations carved in an openwork known in ancient times as opus interrasile, one of the most beautiful and expensive kinds of workmanship then practiced in the Near East. The decorations are a continuous network of leaves, stems, branches, birds and human figures, from which the background has been cut away, so that the inner bowl is visible. The most striking...
...Dallas, Tex. Other important Bossom commissions in the U. S. included the restoration of Fort Ticonderoga for ex-Congress man Herbert C. Pell. In Britain he is a member of the London County Council and chairman of the Committee of the Royal Society of Arts for the Preservation of Ancient Cottages. The Bossoms may plant Genesis, obviously unsuitable for an Ancient Cottage, in their own garden...