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...MONUMENT by Nathaniel Benchley. 249 pages. McGraw-Hill...
Merrick is cunning when it comes to handling talent. "Artists are supersensitive children," he says. "They have to be whipped sometimes, but they have to be whipped with lettuce leaves." Directors, playwrights, designers, songwriters, choreographers-they all say that Merrick is patience on a monument when they come to him with their problems. "The man is a born midwife," says a playwright. "He knows just when to gentle, just when to press." The thing he does best is stay away: he never goes to rehearsals unless he is asked to, shows confidence even if he doesn't feel...
...full 44 years after independence before the Irish fulfilled the Dublin street ballad. Last week, on the eve of the 50th anniversary of the Easter Rebellion, someone grandly pulled down (or, more literally, blew up) the top half of Lord Nelson's 134-ft. monument in the heart of Dublin. As W. B. Yeats predicted in his poem Easter, 1916, "All changed, changed utterly." Lord Nelson lay in a pile of rubble on O'Connell Street. Said the Dublin police, scarcely concealing their admiration: "An absolutely expert...
Ellis Island is 1,700 ft. across the water from the Statue of Liberty. Johnson, who wanted to call attention to the is land without insulting the lady, has designed the monument to rise 130 ft., bulking large enough to be visible from around the harbor, but still about 20 ft. lower than Liberty's pedestal...
...involved in the job I had to do, which was to develop my talent." Then in 1926 he met Aniela ("Nela"), the handsome, honey-blonde daughter of Polish Conductor Emil Mlynarski. She was 17, he was 39. When he finally got around to proposing to her beneath the Chopin monument in Warsaw, Nela was doubtful. It seems that Rubinstein's lady of the moment, sensing a rival, had followed him and was threatening to make a scene. He got rid of her, made up to Nela, and after a persistent courtship married her in London in 1932. A year later...