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Aida Barona, prima ballerina, was the outstanding member of the cast. Dancing lead roles in both "Prometheus" and "Hollywood", she showed an excellence that can be favorably compared with many of the dancers of the Ballet Russe. When it is considered that the group had been dancing for only a little more than three years, its faults in technique may be easily forgiven...
...Ballet's lighting and staging method, coupled with its magnificent costumes may very well bring about some changes in the present colorless state of scenic affairs. Thus, the sense of two-dimensionality and the effectiveness of composition and costume that was present in the Egyptian Dance in "Prometheus" seemed to me to be one of the high sports of the evening's performance...
Quick to seize the similarity between the MacMonnies affair and the budding Manship incident, the tabloid Daily Mirror printed an imaginary conversation be tween the two sculptors' statues, head lined it "PROMETHEUS" BIG SISSY TO "CIVIC VIRTUE," promised to run further news of the "amazing wrangle...
Last week, under like circumstances, Rockefeller Center became the butt for town wits and art critics. Installed early last month in the Center's plaza was a huge gilt Paul Manship statue of Prometheus poised in a swimming pose on a mound and encircled by a ring carved with zodiacal symbols. Last week Essayist Christopher Morley in the Saturday Review of Literature wrote of it thus: "I am appalled by the Yiddish Hurdler on the new terrace of Rockefeller City. Under those glorious perpendiculars . . . this gesticulating gigolo in gilt. Besides he is just as immoral as the banished Lenin...
...Saturday afternoon with Lotte Lehmann, Melchior, and Schorr; Artur Bodansky conducting. The Boston Symphony Orchestra, assisted by the St. Cecilia Society and David McCloskey, will play the fol- lowing programme, to be broadcast Saturday evening at 8.15 P.M. over WEAF; Introduction to Solomon, by Handel; Evocation, by Loeffier; Prometheus, baritone solo, by Hugo Wolf; and Brahms' Fourth Symphony. Toscanini and the New York Philharmonic will play Beethoven's Overture to Fidelio, all three of the Leonora overtures, and Brahms' First Symphony, on Sunday afternoon over WABC