Word: blinds
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...these morality scripts that Peter Lorre was given to work on. He plays harmless immigrant who gets face burned in rooming house fire; turns brilliant criminal; falls in love with blind girl; gracefully reforms; gets double crossed and winds up hero. Lorre makes the best out of a second rate picture. But oh, for the days when movies had to be barred to children under twelve...
Manhattan also had an exhibition of blind sculpture last week. Unlike Portland's blind sculptors, Manhattan's were adults: women from 19 to 71. At The Lighthouse, a comfortably proportioned, six-story building on 59th Street, the New York Association for the Blind provides education, recreation and work for sightless people, holds classes in sculpture with instructors borrowed from...
Visitors at the Manhattan show were especially impressed with a bulgy plaster elephant done by 52-year-old Clara Crampton, who, blind from birth, had never seen one. Other Manhattan blind sculptors had made statues of an armchair, a cat, a fisherman, a violinist. One had even managed a mother and child. The Lighthouse had expected to put price tags on the works and raise a little extra cash for the artists by selling them. But the blind sculptors flatly objected. Not one was willing to part with her sculpture, at any price...
...composer, is a one-good-opera man.* Montemezzi's opera, written in 1913, is L'Amore del Tre Re (The Love of Three Kings). It is a chronicle of ancient tabloid-headline love: a king's wife and a handsome lover; a compassionate husband; a wise, blind, bearded oldster poking about in the background. It is old stuff to sophisticated opera fans, but Montemezzi's surging, glowing score is as Italian as ravioli, and one of the best of its kind since Verdi. Last week Composer Montemezzi made L'Amore del Tre Re an event...
William Billings: American Psalms and Fuguing Tunes (The Madrigalists, Columbia: 6 sides; $2.75). One-eyed William Billings, Boston tanner and self-taught musician, wrote his "fuguing tunes" (not fugues but canons, like Three Blind Mice) for 18th-Century churchgoers. Long in disuse, Billings' choral works have been republished by Music Press Inc., a new Manhattan firm much of whose output is recorded by Columbia. Included in the album is Billings' chesty Chester, favorite of Revolutionary soldiers...