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Looking at the marble palaces built by U.S. financial titans, Novelist Henry James once described Newport as a "breeding ground for white elephants." Some of them now loom chipped and sagging in the long grass, but they still make an imposing trunk-to-tail parade down and around Bellevue Avenue. Their gates are generally shut to the public, but last week from paintings on exhibition in a Manhattan gallery, the curious could get an idea of what the elephants' insides looked like...
...Mstislav Dobujinsky. Dobujinsky, a dapper, silver-haired Lithuanian, has done ballet sets from Moscow to Manhattan-usually, as in his sets for Diaghilev's Ballet Russe, filled with backdrops of toppling, cubistic cities. Last summer Dobujinsky found peace from the pasteboard, fast-whirling world of the theater in Newport's piles. "They are part of American history," he said, "I am very proud that I could paint them...
Dobujinsky's Newport water colors looked like stage sets for a slow-motion ballet of ghosts in frock coats or lowcut, glittery gowns...
Died. Helena Sturtevant, 74, grand old lady of Newport, R.I.'s art colony, whose paintings were exhibited at the town's Art Association, and whose etchings are represented in New York City's Public Library; in Newport...
...alternate selection follows U.S. Highway 3 to Manchester, New Hampshire, State Highway 114 from there to Bradford, State Highway 103 from Bradford to Sunapee, State Highway 11 from Sunapee to Newport, and State Highway 10 from Newport to Hanover...