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...familiar tricks. Guy Pène du Bois took top $1,200 honors with Cocktails, a collection of lathe-turned automatons on a lawn. Nevertheless, both shows contained a few really original approaches to painting-for instance, U.S.A. Two Cents a Mile, by a little-known newcomer named Lucia Autoririo. Her abstract organization of the impressions one gets from a train window at night suggested a new way of combining time & space in a picture which stays still...
Lily Pons: Bell Song from Delibes' Lakme, and Mad Scene from Donizetti's Lucia di Lammermoor (Columbia, 6 sides). The Met coloratura's polished style, as well as her occasional variance from pitch, heard in her two most famed roles. Performance and recording: good...
...Bell Song from Lakmé and the Queen of the Night Aria from The Magic Flute had roused admiration and curiosity. But until this week, almost none of her phonographic fans had heard her in the flesh. When she walked on Carnegie Hall's stage and launched into Lucia's Mad Scene and an assortment of Mozart and Verdi fireworks, they lent attentive ears. Soprano Korjus flatted on a couple of high notes, sang a phrase or two off pitch. Her high Ds and Fs were a little strident. But she handled most of her arias with grace...
...wealth can lose money is to back a ballet troupe. Distinguished losers at ballet in recent decades have included the Aga Khan and Sir Basil Zaharoff (original Ballet Russe of Monte Carlo), Cincinnati's yeast king, Julius Fleischmann (Universal Art, Inc.), Manhattan's rug widow, Lucia Chase (Ballet Theatre), Boston's department-store prince, Lincoln Kirstein (American Ballet). Last week another prospective loser cheerfully bet his chips: Chilean-born George de Cuevas, onetime Marqués de Piedrablanca de Guana, who married the late John D. Rockefeller's granddaughter, Margaret Strong...
...World War I vaudeville, featuring Eddie Cantor, George Murphy and girl friends Constance Moore, Joan Davis and Nancy Kelly. Samples: the principals singing and dancing I Want a Girl Just Like the Girl That Married Dear Old Dad; Dinah in blackface; a four-voice rendition of the Sextette from Lucia, with Murphy (as a matador) and Cantor (as a knight-at-arms) munching bananas; Eddie Cantor and Joan Davis impersonating Antony & Cleopatra. The story concerns George Murphy, a wolf, who has heart trouble with Nancy Kelly, a wolverine, and Constance Moore, who 1) shuns, 2) marries, 3) divorces, 4) remarries...