Word: arensbergs
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Angeles County Museum is the West Coast's largest, but until recently its shortcomings have given Los Angeles a reputation in the art world as the city of lost opportunities. Rich art collectors bypassed the museum in their bequests; in 1951 the famed Arensberg collection of modern paintings was snatched from under its nose by the Philadelphia Museum. This week the Los Angeles County Museum had something worth crowing about. Up on the wall of its softly lighted Spanish Gallery went a handsome new acquisition with a resounding title and glamorous history: Portrait of La Marquesa de Santa Cruz...
...Arensberg, in the title role, survives remarkably well in competition with her less inhibited, almost riotous fellows. Her changing attitudes are clearly delineated, and she inspires sympathy and even love when she is thwarted by scheming conspirators. Earle Edgerton and Margaret Groome, as Sir Fox and Madame Cat, work together hand in glove. Their nonchalance and dastard evil, dispelled at the end when they too become human, are lustily executed. J.D. Shucter as Gepetto the puppetmaker, peers with great authority through horn rims, though his early slapstick might appear a trifle strained. Marc Brugnoni's Sandwich Man is marvelously rakish...
...Monticello and Robert E. Lee's Stratford (Va.) home; of a stroke; in Munich, Germany. Kimball became director when the museum was only partially built, developed it into one of America's best, acquired the Gallatin Collection (e.g., Picasso's Three Musicians), the $2,000,000 Arensberg Collection (e.g., Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase...
...betrayed him, but his subsequent transformation to cleverness and understanding is a surprise in the light of the earlier characterization. Miss Fuchs appeared again as Marcolfa, the servant, and did her usual good job. Mary Anne Goldsmith as Belisa's mother was brief and entertaining, as were Ann Arensberg and Lucia Stein as elves. I suspect Wendy MacKenzie, although charming enough in the part of the bride, was partly responsible for the failure of clarity at the end of the play. Nevertheless, it came off pretty well, and Don Bourne's sets and Bill Meador's music added considerably...
Died. Walter Conrad Arensberg, 75, one of the world's leading art collectors, who in 1950 presented his 1,000-piece, $2,000,000 collection of 20th century and pre-Columbian art to the Philadelphia Museum of Art; of a heart attack; in Los Angeles. A firm believer that Shakespeare's plays were actually written by Francis Bacon, Arensberg wrote numerous books on the subject, founded the Francis Bacon Foundation to carry on research...