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Sandro Botticelli. The play opens like a fancy dress ball. On the minute stage of the Provincetown Theatre are assembled people dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel...
...completes a terrestrial romance with the soda-fountain lady of his dreams. Such is the plot, by far the least interesting part of the story. Much more important is a poetic, and even mystic, conception of great magnitude; every man's Heaven is a reflection of his Earth. Thus, Lorenzo the Magnificent beholds the dwelling of God as a vast, shining palace; the Egyptian slave beholds it as a sanctuary of a wordless mystery; Herlighy, from Eighth avenue, beholds it as a City Hall buzzing with bald-headed efficiency. The author has had difficulty in making this grand idea consort...
...appointments are announced of Dr. Earnest Albert Hooton as Assistant Professor of Anthropology for three years from September 1, 1921, and of Dr. William Lorenzo Moss as assistant professor of Preventive Medicine and Hygiene for the current year...
...Room of the Fogg Art Museum. The fresco is a remarkable copy of a section of the larger work, painted in 1459 by Bonzzo Gozzoli of the Florentine School, on the walls of the chapel in the Medici Palace, now known as the Riccardi Palace, in Florence. It represents "Lorenzo the Magnificent," mounted on a richly caparisoned white horse at the head of "The Procesion of the Magi." He wears a yellow and gold tunic with red sleeves, red silk tights, and, on his flowing curls; a jeweled cap surmounted by a crown. Knights on horseback and on foot form...
...Lloyd Lorenzo Shaulis, A.B. (Economics...