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...fabulous Lord Duveen to a Philadelphia heiress, Mrs. Eleanor Elkins Widener, first wife of a surgeon and explorer, the late Dr. A. Hamilton Rice, for a resounding $200,000. But when the bust arrived at Parke-Bernet its history had been forgotten; it was billed as merely another plaster copy...
...Pretty Possibility. Met officials then threw caution to the winds. Said Rorimer: "It is an original work of art, not a plaster cast. I'm convinced it is of the period and of great value." The Met will subject it to a series of exhaustive tests, but even before the results are in, Met Curator of Western European Art John G. Phillips predicts that it will prove to be the original from which the Bargello bust was made. Furthermore, he believes that it is by Leonardo da Vinci...
...Panel of acoustical experts called in. Beranek feels slighted. Gaps between 500-lb. clouds are partially patched up with strips of black plywood. Slabs of plywood and plaster are mounted behind sides of stage. Balconies are reshaped. Lead curtain is hung behind blue-and-gold mesh screen at rear of stage. Sound-dampening Fiberglas is spread across rear wall. Total cost: $500,000. Bell Telephone Laboratories sends man to evaluate hall's sound with new space-age computer. Machine says major problems-lack of bass, uneven distribution of sound, fluttery echoes-are largely corrected. Critics say machine has flipped...
...bewildered and fascinated two centuries of Western culture. In Germany he is worshiped as a demi-divinity; Albert Schweitzer, for instance, modeled much of his life on Goethe's. Yet in the English-speaking world his works are very little read. The Goethe of transatlantic reputation is the plaster Zeus of Weimar who thundered at secretaries and toadied to princes ("Blessed are those who draw near to the great of this world!"). Of his works, only Faust is famous, largely because Charles Gounod made grand opera of it, and only a few of his finest lyrics have survived...
...Acid Bath. Once Costantini has a drawing or plaster model in hand, he seeks out the glass blower he feels particularly suited to the work. "We drink a glass of wine and talk," he says, "then another glass of wine and talk some more." Costantini selects the colors, and the tortuous work of blowing and shaping begins. For Ernst's tall, reddish-brown Poet, topped by a sharp-beaked head with a hole for an eye, the glassworker at some stages had the equivalent of a 100-lb. weight at the end of his long metal blowpipe. Le Corbusier...