Word: diana
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about 20 operettas and operas (including Lakmé) and several ballets (Coppélia and La Source). For Sylvia (written in 1876), Delibes used a 16th century story of a Greek shepherd who falls in love with one of Diana's huntresses. She repulses him until the god Eros steps in. In a scene reminiscent of The Perils of Pauline, a robber khan ab ducts Sylvia, but with the help of the gods, and oblations from peasants, shepherds and huntresses the lovers are united. Sadler's Wells Choreographer...
...into possession of several old sheets of parchment which are a clue to a priceless treasure buried among the ruins. In practically no time, he finds himself mixed up with such shady characters as a fat invalid (Francis Sullivan), a raven-haired Latin beauty (Patricia Medina), an alcoholic blonde (Diana Lynn), a mysterious fellow with a crew cut and smoked glasses (Sean McGlory). The feverish chasing is punctuated with slugging and shooting. This sort of thing has been done better a number of times, but the scenery, shot on the spot in Mexico, is almost striking enough to divert...
...They call it "service"? Aly Khan-how thoughtful of him to pick a stud farm this time . . . Lady Astor, an ... arrogant woman, being horrified at the idea that she could have married a U.S. Army officer. Nobody in his right mind would believe it ... And last, the driveling of Diana Barrymore. She observes . . . that women are no damn good ("They should be struck regularly, like a gong") . . . She doesn't need to be struck like a gong. Not at all. What she needs is a good, swift kick...
Buffalo's Albright Art Gallery announced a major acquisition: a bronze Diana, accompanied by a little stag. The 36-inch-high figure, modeled by a Greek of the 2nd or 3rd century B.C., is extraordinarily well preserved. It has a windblown freshness and grace that no later sculptor could have improved on. Gallery Director Edgar Schenck would not say what his sculpture cost, but made clear that he thought it priceless: "We believe there is no other Greek bronze yet discovered which compares in size and quality to our Diana...
...statue was dug up some 30 years ago, during building excavations in Rome, but the real credit for its discovery goes to an ardent old (60) Manhattan art dealer named Piero Tozzi. Over the years, dozens of connoisseurs had examined the Diana without penetrating the deep crust of filth that clothed her. But Tozzi saw the divinity under the dirt, bought Diana from a Roman art dealer, and spent six months lovingly cleaning her. By the time he had finished the task this spring, museum men across the U.S. and from Britain were anxious to have her. Fortunately for Buffalo...