Word: giaconda
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...Vinci's Mona Lisa, the Louvre's-and the world's-most famous painting. When Culture Minister Andre Malraux decided to redecorate the gallery and install in it the museum's collection of French paintings, the first question was what could possibly replace La Giaconda's enigmatic smile? The answer, decided Director Andre Parrot and Curator Michel Laclotte, was the tragic clown figure, Gilles, painted in 1720 by Antoine Watteau. And surprisingly, the replacement so far has met with nothing but approval...
...Cole Porter's Out of This World; Benjamin Britten's novelty musical Let's Make an Opera. For mid-fall production, Broadway will import British Dramatist Christopher Fry's The Lady's Not for Burning (with John Gielgud) and Aldous Huxley's The Giaconda Smile...
...blow was comparatively a light one to a New Yorker, but Anthony Hope winced. His eyebrows lifted just a little and on his lips rested the enigmatical smile that Leonardo da Vinci immortalized on Giaconda...
...Holders. As feudal barons clung to their castles and patents of nobility, so the elect of Manhattan's social register cling to the boxes of the Metropolitan. This year Box 31 and Box 35 will be empty when the opening curtain rises upon Giaconda. Not seeing Mrs. Vanderbilt in 31, operagoers will recall the recent death of her son, Reginald C. Vanderbilt. And J. P. Morgan's absence from Box 35 will recall to many that Mrs. Morgan died last July...
Following is the program for the Pop Concert in Symphony Hall this evening: 1.March, "Joyeuse," Auzende 2. Overture, "Light Cavalry," Suppe 3. Waltz, "Les Patineurs," Waldteufel 4. Selection, "Madame Sherry," Hoshna 5. Ballet Music "La Giaconda," Ponchielli 6. March, "Into Action," Payne (Dedicated to H. M. M. B. A.) 7. Selection, "The Girl in the Train," Fall 8. Overture, "Jubilee," Weber Organ, Mr. Marshall. 9. Overture, "Raymond," Thomas 10. Waltz, "Solitude," Waldteufel 11. American Fantasy, Herbert Organ, Mr. Marshall. 12. March, "Flag of Victory," Blon