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...when he was an unknown schoolboy in Spain, Dali had let his hair grow in order to resemble Raphael's self portrait. Now, his ambition was to "recreate Raphael" in oils. But instead of a Raphaelesque Madonna, Dali had chosen for his "masterpiece" the Greek myth of Leda (whom Zeus seduced, in the guise of a swan). Dali's up-to-the-minute title: Leda Atomica. "Le head," explained Dali in his scrambled English, "ees the most finish. Le figure weel remain très clair. Le rest weel become très nocturne. Weel appear new architectures...
...show's catalogue, an unassuming but perfect etching of 64-year-old Picasso's new girl: the mysterious 19-year-old brunette who is rumored to be the daughter of his concierge. Judging by the picture, she had the classical, wide-eyed face of a Leda, and the neck of a swan...
...Secret Room (by Robert Turney) is the story of Leda Ferroni, a mental victim of Nazi torture, who goes-presumably cured-to live with an American family. Before the family catches on, she has turned the kids against their mother, planned a kidnapping, committed one murder, attempted a second. The play might have been a fascinating character study or a menacing yarn. But Leda is bungled and the story is a bore...
Robert Turney's drama shows how Leda Ferroni, the refugee, is led to murder and finally to total insanity in her unscrupulous struggle to keep her past a secret and to make her future happy. The key to this happiness is the possession of a baby, but psychologically Ferroni is unable to have her own. So she goes about winning the affection of the two little girls while posing as a friend of the family. It is all quite effective, and the secret room itself, whether it is intended as a symbol of Miss Ferroni's hidden past...
...royal princes, each with his special talent and gift of the gods. The only woman aboard was a princess: Atalanta of Calydon, the virgin huntress, who could outrun any man in Greece. Argus, who built the Argo, was the world's finest shipwright. Castor and Pollux, sons of Leda and the swan (Zeus), were champion prizefighters. Nauplius was an unrivaled navigator (naturally: his father was Poseidon, the sea god). Orpheus could make sticks & stones dance when he played his lyre. Hercules of Tiryns was the strongest man in the world; he would have captained the Argonauts were...