Word: perugia
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...captive of Wall Street. 93. The church of San Domenico in Perugia was the scene of an event that troubled the Vatican...
...sacristy of Perugia's 4th century church of San Domenico last week, portraits of four Popes looked down on theatrical make-up men applying wigs and beards. Outside, photographers crowded into the pulpit. On a wooden stage below them, flanked by a large orchestra and chorus, a troupe of 50 dancers went through the first performance of Leonide Massine's Laudes Evangelii, a ballet "mystery play" depicting the story of Christ...
...ballet performance. The idea came last spring to Francesco Siciliani, art director of the Florence Community Theater. He broached it to Massine (who is Russian Orthodox), and the choreographer went to work. Siciliani got ecclesiastical permission from the Dominicans of San Domenico and from the Archbishop of Perugia...
When Massine's company first got to Perugia, a Rome newspaper ran a picture of French Ballerina Geneviève Lespagnol going through her rehearsal paces in ballet tights. Since she plays the Virgin Mary, the picture created quite a stir. A deputation of five Dominicans came around to keep an eye on rehearsals, but the company's directors managed to reassure them...
...show got only one bad notice -but that one might prove fatal. The Vatican had not been officially informed of Perugia's plans, but it spoke up quickly when it read the notices. "Churches," announced a Vatican spokesman, "are meant to be places of worship in the most absolute sense of the word . . . For the time being, the Archbishop of Perugia will be requested to handle the matter in such a way that it will not repeat itself...