Word: juno
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...Seymour Slive another Juno...
...with Ireland's Abbey Theater, now returned to the U.S., at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, for the first time in 38 years and touring on to Boston and Philadelphia. The Plough and the Stars is O'Casey's second-best play; his ineffable masterwork is Juno and the Paycock. This production might well be called The Plough. It is workmanlike but never, for a moment, lyrically incandescent...
...Roman goddess of wealth and marriage, and it took plenty of the former before Armand Hammer, 78, could latch on to Rembrandt's Juno. The perdurable Occidental Petroleum Corp. chairman, who recently received a $3,000 fine for making illegal contributions to the 1972 Nixon campaign, bought the 17th century masterpiece for $3.25 million from Navy Secretary J. William Middendorf II. The most highly priced Rembrandt ever sold, the painting will eventually land in the Los Angeles County Museum. "The seller was asking $5 million," said the magnate philosophically, "so I think $3.25 million is a bargain...
...three-month presentation of Juno - the most expensive Rembrandt ever purchased -- isn't all that Harvard stands to gain out of Hammer's presence...
...mentioned that Juno was in the basement of a Bonn museum in 1934 when Hitler decided that all paintings that weren't Rhenish should be sold. An astute collector snatched up the painting for 900 Marks, or $214. "We got even with Hitler," Hammer said of the deal. "That...