Word: madonnas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Auctions are apt to produce some bargains as well as some fantastically high prices, but the "anonymous" Madonna and Child recently knocked down at a Manhattan auction for $1,200 seemed to be one of the biggest bargains in auction history...
...chance-food and tombs on stage together." Startled first-nighters saw the heroine clad as half nun and half Easter lily, her duenna completely faceless, another nun headless and one tavern character with two heads. Among huge fish, crawling monsters and enormous yellow butterflies, danced a coquettish, bell-shaped madonna. Exulted Dali: "I have never done anything so absolutely my own as this...
That Shrine where the Madonna sits...
...Jordan Hall program included many of her most famous solo dances: "The Cobras," "White Jade," and "The White Madonna." In the last named, she was assisted by a young man named Billy Ross, who also alternated solo dances with Miss St. Denis during the evening. His "numbers," whether entitled "Sailor's Entrance" or "Whither Man?," were not dances at all but rather more party games or charades. Mr. Ross is no dancer, but he is a grimacer par excellence...
...still no better decribed than by the adjective "captivating." During her longer speeches Wednesday night, particularly the lyrical but incomprehensible 'play-scene' in Act I, Miss Rainer held her audience spellbound by the sheer radiance she brought to the role. During this speech, she made fewer movements than a Madonna, but at other times she did things that no American-trained actress could possibly do and get away with--the mercurial changes of mood, the intense, doc-like stare at the actor speaking, certain extravagant gestures about the face--to name a few. I shouldn't care...