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...group of prominent Bostonians bought the building and converted it into an opera house after changing the name to the "Howard Athenaeum." There, in 1846, genuine Italian opera had its New England premiere with a performance of Verdi's "Ernani," and Sheridan's "Rivals" played to toney audiences from Beacon Hill until a fire gutted the wooden auditorium...
...more). When finished early in 1942 it will house the religious activities of 1,500 Disciples of Christ in two severe, flat-roofed units joined by a two-story bridge across a sunken terrace and a 140-by-120 reflecting pool. And perhaps its sheer 166-foot tower will beacon religious architecture back into the advancing stream of history...
When the performance was over, most of the audience and some of the ballerinas trooped to Back Bay to view a top-notch art exhibit-78 paintings by Georges Rouault-and the Institute's new home at No. 210 Beacon St. The guests, queued up in the street and taxing the energies of the ushers (Harvard footballers), packed three floors of the building, sipped hot bouillon and champagne punch, saw more of each other than of the pictures...
Through the murk of biased reporting on both sides, just one fact shone bright as an ancient Greek fire beacon. Adolf Hitler has an unearthly way, not only of beating his enemies, but of getting his allies into embarrassing wars which make his own successes seem greater. Winter in Finland and the rainy season in Greece were two good examples...
...Institute of Modern Art celebrated the opening of its new building on Beacon Street by presenting a retrospective exhibition of the works of George Rouault, an artist whose genuine passion for color affords a channel through which a mystical insight into certain aspects of life can be expressed...