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...Pinocchio memorial. Tempted by so grand a prize (1,500,000 lire), 84 sculptors and architects sent in projects: merry Pinocchios, realistic Pinocchios, sad Pinocchios, surrealist Pinocchios. Last week the prize jury announced its decision: it would split the award money between Painter Venturino Venturi and Sculptor Emilio Greco, build not one but two Pinocchio memorials...
Prizewinner Venturi, 35, a specialist in murals, submitted a plan for a "magic quadrangle"-a court enclosed by a wall of varying heights on which would be colored mosaics representing scenes and characters from the Pinocchio story. Sicilian-born Sculptor Greco's entry was a tall semi-abstraction showing the Good Fairy pulling Pinocchio from a tree trunk with a great bird hovering above them. When cast in bronze, Greco's figure will stand a little away from Venturi's magic quadrangle on the grounds of Collodi's stateliest 18th century villa...
...years Las Vegas has become such a glittering entertainment center that Variety now finds it necessary to keep a full-time correspondent in residence. On any night, the Strip offers the tourist such big names as Danny Kaye, Lauritz Melchior, Betty Hutton, Ezio Pinza, Milton Berle and the Jose Greco Dancers. The stars, of course, are just an added attraction, gold-horned Judas goats who lure the herds of tourists to the gaming tables. "We're just the highest-paid shills in history," says Tallulah Bankhead. "Why do we do it? Dahling, for the loot, of course...
...Angeles County Museum showed off El Greco's magnificent, somberly calm St. Andrew.* Alongside the masterpiece, the museum displayed a fascinating find: a sheet of rare El Greco drawings in red chalk-preliminary sketches for St. Andrew and for another work (the head of a spectator in The Despoiling of Christ). For decades, the El Greco sketches had been misfiled in a British collector's album of drawings by Francisco Goya. They were picked up by Dr. William R. Valentiner, the museum's treasure hunter, for a bargain...
...fisherman and brother of St. Peter. During the reign of Nero, he was crucified by being bound to a decussate (X-shaped) cross. In the painting owned by Los Angeles, the martyr supports one shaft of the cross and raises a hand in blessing. In other versions, El' Greco pictured the scene from various angles and in different moods...