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...clarify and dramatize all this artistic tomahawkery, the exhibition's directors, René d'Harnoncourt, Frederic Douglas and Henry Klumb, had carpentered one of the trickiest jobs of installation in the museum's history. Towering South Alaskan Kwakiutl idols leered from dimly-lit corners; ceremonial masks hung like primitive waxworks in their showcases, their hollow eyes lit at shadowy angles by concealed spotlights...
More persuasive was the Pelléas which Maeterlinck and his chic, 46-year-old wife (Renée Dahon, actress) witnessed last week. The young, hard-working Philadelphia Opera Company made Maeterlinck's dreamy medieval play completely believable, with Tenor John Toms and Soprano Frances Greer a handsome pair of lovers. As he had promised, Maeterlinck sat it through to the end. He had refused to promise to applaud...
Either for the Franco-German record or because of the resentment lingering from Oran, this tacit invitation was received with a surly growl by Vichy. Said Minister of Colonies Rear Admiral René Platon: "Despite British assurances that these countries were to be handed back to us, I am convinced Britain wanted to appropriate our colonies as a sort of barter instrument in the event a compromise peace was offered them...
...born temptress in 22 years: slim, dark Risë (rhymes with Pisa) Stevens, 27, of The Bronx. Contralto Stevens proved a notable addition to the Met's strippers (who had heretofore included Sopranos Helen Jepson and Lily Pons) and in the seduction scene gave Samson (barrel-shaped Tenor René Maison) quite a going-over. But critics doubted that the Stevens pleasing midriff and voice were enough to make Saint-Saë'ns' shopworn opera an event...
...ren Kierkegaard, who died in 1855, is slowly being excavated from the Danish. Had this philosopher and mystic not written in a minor language, his fame would have resounded with that of Carlyle, Nietzsche, Dostoevski. It was upon Kierkegaard's assertion of romantic individualism that Scandinavian literature in the last century rose to world-famed greatness and influence. He was the prototype of Ibsen's gloomy cleric, Brand. Profound also was his influence on Spain's late, great Catholic scholar, Miguel de Unamuno. Yet only in the last five years has more than an inkling of Kierkegaard...