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...From Cleopatra to Roosevelt, from a long-dead queen to a live President is probably the record biographical jump. But Emil Ludwig's two latest biographies offer similarities. They are Biographer Ludwig's two weakest books; their subjects, credited with almost equal charm, have aroused almost equal controversy about the use to which they put their charm...
...Robert Henderson & Estelle Winwood) lasted four performances, Ibsen's The Wild Duck (produced by Henry Forbes) lasted three. With the shining exception of the Mercury Theatre's Julius Caesar (TIME, Nov. 22), Shakespeare has had hard sledding on Broadway this season. As You Like It, Antony and Cleopatra, The Merry Wives of Windsor were flops, Coriolanus a middling success in its briefly scheduled Federal Theatre run. The Merry Wives, which was written to order in a fortnight because Queen Elizabeth wanted to see Falstaff in love, is creaking farce at best. Last week's production, out-Elizabethaning...
Purpose of medical art is didactic, to teach medical students about healthy and unhealthy human bodies and how to operate on them. Earliest known examples of medical art are Babylonian baked clay models of the liver. Earliest known medical painting represents the birth of one of Cleopatra's babies. In the Italian Renaissance painters belonged to the Guild of Physicians & Apothecaries, because they bought supplies from drugstores. Artists thus developed friends among doctors, and had opportunity to study anatomy. Leonardo da Vinci made more than 750 anatomical sketches, was the first to depict the true position of the fetus...
...past eight years I have crossed this river almost twice daily, and have seen it sometimes as mudflats, sometimes brimming to the base of Cleopatra's Needle. The Thames is tidal to above London, and suicides' bodies are generally recovered miles downstream...
Underlying purpose of Cleopatra's maneuvers, avers Ludwig, was to preserve her honor as patriot, mother, loving wife. In order to make this point, he rejects the orthodox version: that she made a deal with Octavian to assassinate Antony, tricked him into suicide, committed suicide herself only when her planned seduction of Octavian did not work...