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...Italian Renaissance. To mark the anniversary, Amsterdam's Rijksmuseum (State Museum) is staging an exhibition of 100 of the greatest paintings and 123 etchings by Rembrandt Harmensz van Rijn, chosen from 63 collections, including Leningrad's world-famous Hermitage (see color pages). At the same time, Rotterdam's Boymans Museum is exhibiting 268 of Rembrandt's drawings. Best testimony to Rembrandt's enduring attraction: the record-breaking crowds of more than 140,000 European and U.S. tourists who have visited the painting exhibit in its first seven weeks...
...that was needed at brand-new St. Paul's Church in The Hague was a statue of St. Paul. Rotterdam Sculptor Jan Vlasblom was commissioned to create a statue of the saint, to stand on a pedestal above the main entrance. But when Sculptor Vlasblom unveiled a full-sized clay model, the bishopric's Roman Catholic Liturgical Commission turned thumbs down. The clerics objected to a hugely exaggerated surplice that engulfed the saint's figure. It "will give superfluous occasion for wonder instead of admiration," complained the commission report. "Believers could never recognize this figure as their...
Died. Norman Kerry, 60, dashing hero of silent films (The Phantom of the Opera, The Hunchback of Notre Dame); of a liver ailment; in Los Angeles. In 1939 Kerry enlisted in the French Foreign Legion under the pseudonym Heinrich van der Kerry of Rotterdam, saw action on the Maginot Line, returned to the U.S. in 1941 after the fall of France...
...Rotterdam, Veeridam (ah, but the crew is cranky), Grande Dame (the liner she's), Rooseveltdam, Hotdam, Goddamn. Aphasia, Valeteria (founded in 1926), Ablaut, Umlaut, Nein and Ja (freight only...
Holland will stage performances in The Hague-Scheveningen, Amsterdam, Rotterdam and 13 cities and other towns (June 15-July 15). Besides the first-rate Concertgebouw and Hague Residentie orchestras, the Israel Philharmonic. Milan's La Scala opera and the New York City Ballet will perform...