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...theater should be truly national, and that Broadway would improve if its productions were to be assembled somewhere else than on Manhattan Island. This, by Scott's description, is admittedly like ''trying to drive a camel through the eye of a needle, the eye being the Holland Tunnel." But "the theater is strangling itself in the Broadway struggle," he says, "Most plays are produced on a limited-partner basis. The same money is used over and over again." And this financial centralization creates "indirect censorship"-that is, relatively few people decide what plays will be done. Different...
...fabled Slow Boat to China. Women seem to like cruises because they can count on good food and plumbing aboard ship, are spared the hazards of finding their way alone through strange cities and into questionable hotels. They also get to see a big piece of the world. Holland-American Line's Rotterdam, for example, is now steaming around the world on an 80-day trip that will include a tiger shikar at the jungle estates of the Maharajah of Cooch Behar in the foothills of the Himalayas, a tour of Tashkent, the capital of Uzbekistan, side trips...
...Velde was born in Holland in 1895, and by the time he was twelve had found a niche in art. He was apprenticed to an interior decorator as a wall painter; his talent quickly advanced him from walls to designing lampshades to copying, old masters. The decorator sent Van Yelde to a German artists' colony where he discovered "painting as a language to translate the world and one's life." But his translations were so brutal and sad that no one wanted them, and when the Depression came, the decorator cut off Van Velde's stipend...
...first established an ad ministrative post 64 years ago, 3,000 dark-skinned Papuans staged an anti-Indonesian protest march-with encouragement from the Dutch. Waving their own red-and-blue national flag, they paraded to the strains of an old Dutch anthem. Its name: We Want to Keep Holland...
Last week Manhattan's Sidney Janis Gallery had on view a small retrospective show that traces some of the steps along that route. It begins with the year 1903 when Mondrian, then 31, was painting the common sights of his native Holland -houses and windmills, rivers and canals. As the years passed, Mondrian began to strip awyay the outer layers of nature to reveal its skeletal geometry. A tree was not made up of a trunk and branches but of horizontals and verticals. When Mondrian painted a flower, he was primarily interested in its "plastic structure...