Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...summer in London with his daughter, wife of Theatrical Producer Gilbert Miller, Mr. Bache's lawyer summoned reporters, gave them news that within a year not only the Grand Duchess Marie but any other resident or visitor in Manhattan will be able to see Raphael's Giuliano de'Medici at almost any time. Banker Bache, for a quarter-century one of the most important art collectors in the U. S., was giving his entire collection to the public and turning over his home at No. 814 Fifth Avenue as a museum to house it. Other headliners...
...Manuel Osorio de Zuniga by Goya, shows the little grandee with a gay sash round his waist, leading his pet magpie with a string tied to its leg while two big-eyed cats gaze hungrily from a corner...
...18th Century architecture in the U. S., New York's frequently neglected city hall can hold its own with anything in Boston, Philadelphia, Charleston. It contains antique furniture and historical portraits of great importance. Prize: Telegraph Inventor Samuel F. B. Morse's portrait of the Marquis de Lafayette...
...night last week the Opera House was alive with white ties and decolletage, turned out to watch the American Ballet dance three premieres in one evening. Igor Stravinsky, who wrote all three, was on hand to conduct. His Apollon Misagete had never been danced in New York. Le Baiser de la Fee had never been danced in the U. S. The Card Party had never been danced...
...Baiser de la Fee (The Fairy's Kiss) tells how a baby is kissed by the Queen of the Fairies and parted from his mother. He grows into a handsome young man and falls in love. The Fairy reappears, kisses him again, and he follows her into the sea. Stravinsky meant the kiss to symbolize the bestowal of genius upon Tschaikovsky, called the whole work an act of "homage," pieced it together from Tschaikovsky melodies. The music was distinguished only by some new harmonic departures. George Balanchine's choreography proceeded unimpeachably, caused raised eyebrows only when the Fairy...