Word: museums
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With this official statement Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum last week locked the barn door after the theft of a small but valuable ($3,000 to $5,000) picture. Stolen from the Metropolitan's walls was an 11½ by 8⅜ in. tempera painting of St. Thomas the Apostle, attributed by experts to Simone Martini, a 14th-Century Italian painter of the Sienese School...
Commemorating these achievements, the Council of Peoples Commissars last week directed: 1) publication of a new complete edition of Rimsky-Korsakov's work; 2) erection of his statue in Leningrad; 3 ) renaming the Leningrad Conservatory in his honor; 4) reopening the Rimsky-Korsakov Museum in Tikhvin where he was born; 5) establishment of eight "Rimsky-Korsakov" scholarships for young Soviet composers; 6) designation of his library and archives as State treasures; 7) sponsorship of a Soviet film based on his life; 8) establishment of lifelong pensions for his two sons and daughter (500 rubles a month) and granddaughter...
...Victory Concert free for the armed forces will feature Roland Hayes, noted Negro tenor, this Sunday at 4 o'clock at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. Viviano Bertolami, violinist, will also play. Mr. Hayes will be accompanied by Reginald Boardman...
...also announced by the Museum officials that Rudolf Serkin, Eleanor Steber, of the Metropolitan Opera Association, and Jan Smeterlin will appear in the two final programs of the season, the former on April 9 and the latter two on April...
...Harvard Glee Club and Radcliffe Choral Society will sing together at 8:15 o'clock this Friday evening at the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston. G. Wallace Woodworth '24 will conduct...