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Adoration of the Magi, No. 1 Botticelli in the U. S., was painted by the great Italian in Rome in 1481 while he was working on frescoes for the Sistine Chapel. This, too, turned up eventually in the Hermitage Museum, and it took $838,350 of Mellon money...
...proceeded last week for sprinkling and blessing. Into the churches passed drivers to invoke burly St. Christopher's help with prayer: "O God, who didst provide for the children of Israel to pass dry of foot through the midst of the waters, and didst open for the three Magi a road to Thee by means of a Star, grant unto us, we beseech Thee, a journey prosperous and free from harm; that accompanied by Thy Holy Angel, we may arrive safely at our present destination and come at last to the port of eternal salvation, through Christ Our Lord...
...extend to the plot, which seems to an admittedly intolerant Playgoer just another refurbishing of ideas that were old even before "Jack O'Lantern" came to town. Such matter as the old pun about coffe-grounds, or the mix-up taken from O'Henry's "Gifts of the Magi," or the business of loading teacups with sugar-lumps as a sign of abstraction--all these held no charm for the Playgoer, while the very smoothness and finish of the performance depressed him. For as he watched Mr. Shaw's infinitely competent capering, he hoped for just one little slip...
...fourteenth-century French primitives, loaned by J. P. Morgan '89, are on exhibition at the Fogg Museum. They are "The Adoration of the Magi" and "Death of the Virgin...
...fourteenth-century French primitives. "The Adoration of the Magi" and "Death of the Virgin", have been placed on exhibition in the Fogg Art Museum for a few weeks. These primitives are lent to the Museum by J. Pierpont Morgan...