Word: ended
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...week's end, the play was still doing well at the box office, and there was even an outside chance that it might complete its scheduled six-week run at the Palace Theater in London's West End. If Slickey makes it, the credit will go to a gusty young (35) Bostonian named David Pelham, who has bailed himself out of flops before with gimmicks, guts and gall...
...contrast to the soft sell practiced by other West End producers, little (5 ft. 7 in., 135 lbs.) David Pelham busily proclaims his wares any place at any time to anyone who will listen. For the last nine months, Pelham has coaxed people into the theater to see his production of Auntie Mame (TIME, Sept. 22), cashed in on Warner's Auntie Mame movie by taking ads proclaiming "See It Live," stationed 20 men with sandwich boards bearing the same message in front of the theater where the film was playing. The movie moved out after two weeks...
...57th Street's Sidney Janis Gallery, jostling for first peeks and early buys. By noon. 19 of the show's 22 oils were sold at prices ranging from $2,200 for the smallest oil sketch to $14,000 apiece for five big canvases. At week's end a new De Kooning was not to be had for love or money. Shyly backed against a wall as the crowd milled through the gallery, De Kooning was startled and pleased: "There's no way of astonishing anyone any more. I'm selling my own image...
...Leonardo, since he left most of his work unfinished. In fact, when Leo X commissioned him to paint a picture. Leonardo at once set to work distilling herbs for the varnish, and Leo complained that the painter would accomplish "nothing at all, since he is thinking of the end before he has made a beginning." Yet, though Leonardo did leave his St. Jerome unfinished, the whole range of human virtue, from leonine passion to saintly devotion, is here made manifest. Animal and intellectual interlock. The gold of dusk suffuses an image of human reverence that remains, for all its seeming...
...greeted by a storm of indignation at the recent deportation of 60 Christian heads of families in the Nagasaki* area. In 1873 the shogunate removed the notices posted in every Japanese marketplace and on street corners threatening death to anyone who turned Christian or harbored Christians. But until the end of World War II, Christianity was systematically associated with evildoing; "men now still in their 20s can remember how only a few years ago a Christian . . . was a favorite villain in stories for children...