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...interesting exchange was arranged between the Fogg Museum and the Royal Museums of Art and History, Brussels. This Museum owned an Attic black-figured amphora, complete except for a fragment bearing the signature of Nicosthenes. This fragment belonged to the Fogg Museum. At the suggestion of Professor Capart, the Director of the Royal Museums, the Fogg Museum gave the fragment to Brussels and received in return nine very interesting small terra cotta heads from Asia Minor, dating from the first or second century...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: $37,000 WORTH OF GIFTS GIVEN TO FOGG MUSEUM | 1/29/1936 | See Source »

...eternal destroyer, according to Composer Berg who makes her just as horrid in every scene which follows. She destroys one man after another, commits a murder which lands her in prison, weasels her freedom only to philander in Paris with gamblers, procurers, swindlers. End comes in a sordid London attic where Lulu is brutally murdered by Jack the Ripper. Berg's orchestra then sounds out a shuddering scream. The New York Philharmonic took the cue faithfully, startled half its subscribers who still had to hear Soprano Agnes Davis emit a wailing postlude. Strapping young Agnes Davis, who has made...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Provocative Lulu | 12/9/1935 | See Source »

There are tensely dramatic moments throughout the play. The round-up at police headquarters is very good and the scene in Bertha. Williams' attic just before the concluding fight, when the blacks are mourning one of their number slain is also effective...

Author: By A. T. R., | Title: The Crimson Playgoer | 9/26/1935 | See Source »

Incarcerated in an attic room at New York, with a small slot in the door through which meals were served to him, Paul N. Heffernan of the Harvard Architectural School last night concluded a 36-hour vigil in competition for a fellowship which will mean two and a half years of study at the Ecole des Beaux Architects for the winner...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: HARVARD MAN IS SHUT UP IN GARRET DURING CONTEST | 5/27/1935 | See Source »

...Bowdoin undergraduate prize of $75 for the best translation of a specified passage in Greek or Latin was won by Edward Lewis Bassett '36 of Marblehead for his translation into Attic Greek of a passage in C. H. Moore's "The Religious Thought of the Greek." Honorable mention went to John Joseph Ney '35 of Dorchester...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Bowdoin and Belknap Prizes Totalling $275 Announced | 5/15/1935 | See Source »

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