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...virginals. Seven years ago Yale University gave her her first big job -restoration of its fine Steinert collection of 50 antique instruments. Since then she has done similar work for Barnard College, the Beethoven Association, Cooper Union, many a private owner and John D. Rockefeller's picture-postcard Williamsburg, Va. Miss Van Buren has a notable collection of her own including a chest (set of six) of viols, one of which was owned by Handel. A thoroughgoing purist in restoring instruments, she also makes reproductions, would like nothing better than to see oldtime, easily playable instruments placed...
...Baboona, this flaw is more than usually noticeable. No grim study of jungle ferocities and hardships. Baboona is rather the record of a unique vacation. It shows Africa in friendly mood, swarming with gay pygmies, ingratiating birds, responsive game fish. Mount Kenya looks like a Swiss Alp on a postcard. The monkeys scratch themselves with holiday enthusiasm. Only the rhinoceroses are ugly, and even they waddle off with gentle indecision. Good shot: a group of amiable lions lolling around the carcass of a zebra...
...most producers of Shakespeare these terse instructions for The Merchant of Venice call for a papier-maché doorstep (left), a canvas backdrop with houses painted on a postcard blue sky. To Producer Max Reinhardt they call for nothing less than a street in Venice. Therefore in that Italian city last week Herr Professor Reinhardt produced a "localization" of The Merchant of Venice...
...cracksman who stole the $256,000 dollar diamond, they feel certain they will have the maniac swordsman who stuck the policeman from behind the hedge, who had killed four other police in almost as many nights, who had kept the newspapers in an orgy of headlines by his postcard warnings which preceded each crime: "TONIGHT...
...children, married a man in Evansville, Ind. named Fortune. She went to Florida and after Fortune's death married a man named Chamberlin. At the time of his brother's death by a fall from a cherry tree when Albert Chandler was 14, he received a postcard: "God take care of you, my son. Mother"-the only word he ever had from her. Her brother later told him she had died, was buried in Jacksonville. Efforts to find her grave last week led "Happy" Chandler to a man named Lawrence Fortune. He suspected that they might be halfbrothers...