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...Young Museum this week furnished dramatic new evidence that Italy's famed 16th century Sculptor Cellini, best known for his bronze statuary, including the great Perseus still in Florence, and gold art objects, also did "great works in marble." Unveiled with a flourish was a 30-in. marble bust of Cosimo de Medici, Duke of Florence (1519-74), a rediscovery by De Young's Director Walter Heil.*It appeared to be Cellini's long-lost bid for fame as what he himself claimed he was, "the greatest sculptor since Michelangelo...
Eighteen months ago a Manhattan art dealer showed Director Heil the marble bust, which Heil from his days as a fellow of the Institute of Art History in Florence readily identified as a smaller copy of Cellini's bronze bust of Cosimo in the National Museum. Back in San Francisco, Dr. Heil traced references to such a work in the Cellini literature, built up documentation that a marble Cosimo had indeed been carved by Cellini. A memorandum written by Cellini one year before his death in 1571 itemized his marble work, including the Apollo and Narcissus rediscovered in Florence...
After Cellini's death the bust apparently lost its identity; since 1791 it has been owned by an English noble family that could not prove its authenticity when forced by circumstances to sell it to a U.S. collector. Heil's conclusion: "It is completely in the personal style of Cellini, and so unique in craftsmanship that nobody but Cellini could have done...
...early 1930s, newspapers reported bridge divorces, bridge assault-and-battery cases, even bridge deaths. Cartoonist H. T. Webster recorded bridge players' foibles in a long and memorable series. A North Carolina addict swore to shoot the next man who dealt him a bad hand, dealt himself a bust-and promptly shot himself to death. In Kansas City, Mo. in 1929, Housewife Myrtle Bennett committed one of the decade's most headlined homicides by shooting her husband after a bitter quarrel about a bridge deal in which he bid one spade, she jumped to four spades...
...this is familiar jungle rot, but Scriptwriter Milton Holmes has supplied some measure of balm. He gives Hero Todd a sturdy slug of cussedness with which to wash down the. standard mixture of courage and nobility. And beneath his heroine's wayward bust beats no bromidic heart of gold; she is tough, sardonic, shrewdly mindful of her best interests, passionate only as an escape from boredom. When she finally comes to love her man, it is with an old pro's brand of affection-wary, oddly sincere, and rooted in open-eyed recognition that he is probably...