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...Albert-Margo act is something new for Waldorf-goers, who are accustomed to such chic acts as French Singer Patachou, Pop Songstress Martha Wright, Spanish Dancer José Greco. Eddie and Margo generate an old-fashioned vaudeville atmosphere, mixed with overtones of marital give & take. The audiences like it, and when Eddie hollers, "There's no business like show business," he seems to be having the best time he's had in years...
Home Defense. In Napa, Calif., when city officials met to consider James Chadwick's request to be allowed to keep 100 racing pigeons in a residential zone, Councilman Joseph Greco declared: "Pigeons proved valuable during the last war . . . It wouldn't be smart to hold down such a constructive effort...
...rate artists, the Clark show contained only jewels. Among the most brilliant: Vincent Van Gogh's great, glowing Le Cafe de Nuit, done in heavy, vibrant greens, yellows and reds; Rembrandt's beatific St. James, in which the praying saint appears surrounded by a holy presence; El Greco's bearded, cross-bearing St. Andrew, done in contrasting hues of grey, blue and green. The El Greco, now shown in the U.S. for the first time, is one of the most important acquisitions made since...
...German, Spanish and French paintings and Renaissance furniture was grandly laid out. Now the property of Robert Lehman (investment banking), the collection was started by his father, the late Financier Philip Lehman in 1911, is resplendent with Italian primitives and notable examples of the work of Memling, Holbein. El Greco, Rembrandt, Goya, and latter-day Frenchmen like Cézanne and Renoir. One of the show's standouts: Botticelli's tiny, delicate Annunciation, which Robert Lehman bought as a birthday present for his father in 1929. There are also two beautiful Madonnas: one by Giovanni Bellini shows...
...Fresh Standout. In two rooms alone there were 19 Rembrandts. including a masterfully calm and triumphant self-portrait and the reverent, mystical Head of Christ. In other rooms, there was a breath-taking assemblage of masterpieces by Velasquez, Goya and El Greco (including his stark, disturbing View of Toledo*) that could not be equaled in any museum outside of Spain. Pieter Bruegel's ecstatically tranquil Harvesters dominated one room. Caravaggio's Musicians another. In the galleries devoted to modern painters. Pablo Picasso's peaceful Woman in White, recently acquired from the Museum of Modern Art, and Edouard...