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...Applause That Stopped. The painting experienced even more vicissitudes than Rembrandt, ending up, according to legend, over a bedstead in a Dutch farmhouse. There, in the early 1800s, a traveling British art restorer named George Barker saw and picked it up for one shilling, which also included the price of bed and breakfast. Barker presented it to his patron, Lord Spencer. In 1915 it passed into the hands of Sir Herbert Cook for $168,000. Last week it was up for auction in London's Christie's auction house, identified simply as Item...
...lunatic gaze, Sam's face turns red, as well it might, since in Act I the crystal ball mismatches two pairs of lovers: an arm-twisting loan shark (Steve Roland) with a taffy-sweet Ferris-wheel operator (Karen Morrow), and a glib but honest-hearted Coney barker (Richard Kiley) with a roundheeled golddigger (Luba Lisa). In Act II, Hackett second-guesses Sam; the baddies and the goodies mate...
...comic parts of every description, doing full credit to Cumming's vertiginous imagination, "talking very beautifully" (as Me tells Him) in the poet's acrobatic language. Paul Benedict, a ubiquitous master of trades, is especially amusing as a drunkard, soap box orator, prude, interloper, private eye, gentleman, freak show barker, and Mussolini...
...astute and subtle photographer who captured the "maritime interests" of Witness (and Body Dumper) Kendal [Nov. 20] by picturing her with a copy of Rachel Carson's The Sea Around Us. JEFFERY L. BARKER Cambridge, Mass...
...Ekberg-Barker wedding was the first of its kind in the U.S., although similar experiments in ecumenical marriage ceremonies have taken place in the methodically unity-seeking Netherlands. Last April in Amsterdam, for example, a Dutch Jesuit and a Lutheran minister presided over the wedding of the minister's daughter to a Catholic boy in a Lutheran church. Dutch Catholic Bishop Willem Bekkers of 's-Hertogenbosch has twice allowed Reformed pastors to assist Catholic priests at mixed marriages; the couples promised only to bring up their children as "Christians...