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Before Perry opened Japan to the West, the average Jap was a connoisseur who bought the best colored block prints for a few pennies each, as Americans of the day bought Currier & Ives. Ukiyoye, like the Currier & Ives, were mostly genre scenes and tourist views, but the similarity ended there. Glowed the New York Sun's scholarly art critic Henry McBride, after seeing the Met's collection: "It is difficult to think of any other people in any other age who maintained so high a standard in 'popular...
...equally a connoisseur of fox-trot and adagio...
Richard Strauss, composer of 15 operas, once called Ariadne auf Naxos his favorite. Until last week New York had never seen it performed professionally. For 30 years in Europe, Ariadne has been a connoisseur's opera, esteemed by musicians and performers, but not by the public, which preferred Strauss's erotic Salome and his opulent Rosenkavalier. Last week in Manhattan, after the 28th curtain call for the New York City Opera Company's first performance of Ariadne, a friend of 82-year-old Composer Strauss cabled...
...PLEASURE OF THEIR COMPANY (653 PP-)-Edited by Louis Kronenberger -Knopf ($5). Subtitled "An Anthology of Civilized Writing" this is a connoisseur's selection of fiction, poetry, drama, essays, in which "urbanity, irony, elegance, skepticism, sophistication, wit, play a leading part." Twenty-one' polished pieces by Petronius, Lucian, Voltaire (all of Candide), Saint-Simon, De Maupassant, Congreve, Pope, Henry James (all of Washington Square), Max Beerbohm, Virginia Woolf, Aldous Huxley, Henry Adams, etc. Excellent choices, in a finely printed volume...
Died. Gertrude Stein, 72, grizzled matriarch of the stuttering sentence ("A rose is a rose is a rose") whose literary doubletalk was often as confusing as amusing, onetime medical student, connoisseur of modern art, author (Portraits and Prayers, Wars I Have Seen), playwright (Four Saints in Three Acts, Yes Is for a Very Young Man); of cancer, in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France. Her emphasis on the sound, rather than the" sense, of words influenced many a writer. She considered herself the No. 1 figure in contemporary letters, was not shaken by Clifton Fadiman's snug phrase, "the Mamma...