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...lobby stood a huge wrought-iron war god. Elsewhere in the galleries were war masks, chieftains' stools, wooden idols, ivory headrests, bowls, swords, fly whisks, amulets, statues and fertility fetishes belonging to Frank Crowninshield, Henri Matisse, A. Conger Goodyear, Helena Rubinstein, Paul Guillaume, Sir Michael Sadler, and 65 other collectors. Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art was last week opening the largest, most carefully chosen and most important loan exhibition of African Negro sculpture the U. S. has ever seen...
Musically the first part of the 19th Century was an age of virtuosity. Berlioz, writing for the orchestra, mysteriously made instruments sound as they had never sounded before. And not even Rubinstein ever played the piano like Franz Liszt. When Chopin heard Liszt he wrote: "I wish I could steal from him the way to play my own etudes...
Last week Nijinsky was in a Swiss insane asylum, Ida Rubinstein was aging in Paris, Léon Bakst was dead, but Michel Fokine was in Manhattan watching another Scheherazade which he had produced on ten days notice. Fokine's Scheherazade was the indoor sensation of Paris in 1910 and the outdoor sensation of New York in 1934. Jammed to capacity, Lewisohn Stadium seated 15,000, gave standing room to 2,000. Police reserves were called to handle a crowd of 10,000 who jostled outside the gates, were unable to get in. Quick to seize the advantages...
Prize performer at the Stadium was a onetime Fokine pupil named Albertina Vitak. She danced "Zobeide," the part in Scheherazade originally written for Ida Rubinstein. Rubinstein, never a great dancer, was never able to dance the whole ballet. Olive-skinned Albertina Vitak with smooth ease cringed, skipped, loved, pleaded from the first to the final...
...Borodin dropped dead at a fancy-dress party, leaving Prince Igor unfinished. His friend Glazunov wrote down the Overture from memory, and most of the orchestration was done by hardworking Rimsky-Korsakov. Music has remembered Borodin longer than Medicine. But on his casket buried near Tchaikovsky's, Rubinstein's and Dostoyevsky's is a silver inscription: "To the Founder, Protector and Defender of the School of Medicine for Women...