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...central balcony and surrounding galleries of Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art last week were aglow with an unprecedented display of masterpieces. On view were Giotto's famed Paduan fresco Betrayal of Christ, Piero della Francesca's looming Resurrection, the Louvre's Mona Lisa, El Greco's towering 16-by12-ft. Burial of Count Orgaz and Georges Seurat's 7-by-10-ft. Sunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte. To equal the experience, an art lover would have had to visit 26 museums, travel some 15,000. miles...
...friendly incredulity, as "Todd Almighty," assembled no fewer than 46 stars of stage, screen, radio and TV. Among the hit-players: Charles Boyer, Joe E. Brown, Martine Carol, John Carradine. Charles Coburn, Ronald Colman, Melville Cooper, Noel Coward, Reginald Denny. Marlene Dietrich, Fernandel, Sir John Gielgud, Hermione Gingold, Jose Greco. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Trevor Howard, Glynis Johns, Buster Keaton, Evelyn Keyes, Beatrice Lillie, Edmund Lowe, Peter Lorre, A. E. Matthews, Robert Morley, Edward R. Murrow, Jack Oakie, George Raft, Cesar Romero, Frank Sinatra, Red Skelton...
...Allegro suggests, their religion was vastly different from Pauline Christianity, which Allegro seems to consider a Greco-Roman corruption of this early faith-and possibly a corruption of Jesus' own faith. Asks Allegro: "Did Jesus himself go all the way of the New Testament? Did [He] really believe He was God in the flesh?" The Qumran community, writes Allegro, would have abhorred the concept of a God-man (as do the Jews and Moslems today), and they would not have thought of admitting Gentiles to salvation. But the Pauline emphasis on the resurrection was "an even greater difference...
With the Creole (which he sailed in last month's Torquay-Lisbon race) and his "little boat," the 103-ft. auxiliary schooner Eros, Niarchos has cruised effortlessly into international society. He has become a patron of the arts (he paid $300,000 for El Greco's Pieta) and the sport of kings (his 18-horse stable includes Nashua's dam, Segula). A lover of good food and wine, he has been known to explain to dallying guests, as he heads for the dining room: "My cook doesn't like to be kept waiting." He likes...
...rainy evening in 1945, she and her street gang moved into a deserted club on the Left Bank. When the club reopened several months later as Cabaret le Tabou, the new owner encouraged Greco and her band to continue to make it their headquarters. "The proprietor saw in us a sign of the era," says Singer Greco. So did some of Tabou's guests. To Le Tabou came the existentialists and their friends-Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, Christian Berard, Albert Camus and Jean Cocteau. They dubbed Greco and her band "Les Rats des Caves," fed and clothed them. Cocteau...