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Manhattanites waited for the melting watches, the hirsute oysters, the crutches, the lamb chops, that are the hallmarks of Surrealist Salvador Dali. But there were few such symbol-crashes in the ballet Labyrinth, given its world première at the Metropolitan Opera House last week...
...orchestra placidly unfolded the famed "heavenly lengths" of Schubert's Seventh Symphony, the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo toe-danced the Greek legend of Theseus killing the virgin-devouring Minotaur, and finding his way out of the monster's labyrinth by following Ariadne's thread. Against Dali's brightly painted, more or less relevant backgrounds, the confused milling of the lavishly costumed Greeks, pigeons, roosters, dolphins and waves did little credit to the Ballet Russe's seasoned choreographer, Leoride Massine...
...Reporting that she had been booed in Rio, on the street, at the opera door and on the stage as Tosca, Grace Moore said the booers were a Nazi-Fascist claque led by an Italian opera star whom she declined to name. ∙ ∙ 20th Century-Fox hired Salvador Dali to stage a special scene-a nightmare sequence showing "what runs through the mind of an inebriate...
...party of cops. It turned out Miss Golden and the horse had been visiting bars between Park Avenue and Times Square. When the cops found her she was trying to teach the horse the tango. ∙ ∙ A hotel in Del Monte, Calif, got an order from Surrealist Salvador Dali for party decorations. The order: 2,000 pine trees, 5,000 gunny sacks, 4,000 pounds of newspapers, four truckloads of pumpkins and melons, one wrecked automobile, one baby giraffe, three goats...
Manhattan's 57th St. last week turned up an almost unheard-of Spanish painter, Arturo Souto, a solemn, round-bellied Galician. Unlike most celebrated modern Spanish artists (Picasso, Miro, Dali, Gris, et al.) Painter Souto has done most of his painting away from Paris. His heavily stippled, somber-colored paintings of street scenes and peasant figures look conservative alongside the geometric and psychopathic fantasies of his more famed countrymen. But his 'work is agreeably realistic and dourly, muddily individual...