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...rare bright spot came via the first scene featuring Danton Char (Ben Ibriated) and Jesse Hawkes (Dixie Ticonderoga) together. Their humorous blend of dance, slapstick and song put all but Andrew Burlinson's polished Marquesa to shame, even if it did stretch the bounds of Char's Bogart-infused voice...
Building upon the Pudding tradition of puns and word play, the cast of characters features "Ellie Gull," "Marquesa Dilla," and "Sheik Ir-Bouti," as well as songs such as "Rabat Stew...
...acquired by Spanish Dictator Francisco Franco as a gift for Adolf Hitler. If so, it was never delivered, and since then the 1805 portrait of a reclining beauty holding a Greek lyre has rarely been seen in public. That obscurity is now a thing of the past for . the Marquesa de Santa Cruz, a 54-in. by 78-in. painting by the famed Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes. Christie's, the London auction house, expects Goya's Marquesa to fetch a record price of more than $10 million when it is auctioned on April 11. But the Spanish government...
...issue is Madrid's claim that the Marquesa left Spain in 1983 in violation of export laws. In that year the painting was sold to British Art Collector Lord Wimborne by a Mallorca businessman for an undisclosed sum. Spain says the export documents that accompanied the artwork were spurious, a charge that both Wimborne and Christie's deny. A London art dealer involved in the sale to Wimborne apparently was told that the necessary export permit was expedited by a Spanish official who owed the Marquesa's former owner a "favor." Christie's insists that the auction will take place...
Married. Richard C. Pistell, 41, onetime merchant seaman who dropped anchor at Wall Street in 1948 with $50 in his pocket, now captains Goldfield Corp., one of the fastest growing and most aggressive conglomerates (TIME, May 9); and the Marquesa de Portago; both for the third time; in Manhattan...