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Trumpeters blew welcome from the stage, a standard bearer struck the first note of color and 50 singers in Renaissance dress, filed on. Conductor Sandro Benelli (brother of Poet Sem Benelli, author of The Jest) put them through their paces, helped them find pianissimos ineffably tender, failed to tie up smoothly whole sheafs of measures...
...Manhattan, one Sandro Rodreguez accepted a drink from the hip-flask of one Ralph Martinez, a total stranger. Raising the glass to his lips, Mr. Rodreguez smelled, frowned, excused himself, returned after several minutes with a policeman, who arrested Mr. Martinez for burglary. Mr. Martinez pleaded guilty. He had stolen, not only the wine which Mr. Rodreguez had recognized instantly as his own, but several of Mr. Rodreguez's rings and bracelets, also his watch...
...Sandro Botticelli. The play opens like a fancy dress ball. On the minute stage of the Provincetown Theatre are assembled people dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel...
...Charles Theodore Carruth illustrated the works of Sandro Botticelli with exceptionally clear-cut illustrations in color yesterday evening in the Wright Memorial Library of the Episcopal Theological School. His lecture was the fourth of a series on Italian art which Mr. Carruth has delivered on consecutive Monday evenings. He has travelled widely in Europe, collecting masterpieces of painters and making a special study of the Florentine renalssance...
...speaker outlined briefly the life of Sandro Botticelli, who was born in 1444 and had produced a masterpiece before he reached the age of 25. He emphasized the fact that Botticelli remained unheralded until, at the end of the sixteenth century. Ruskin became active in bringing him into prominence. In commenting on his works, Mr. Carruth pointed out the personaltly expressed in the painter's figures, praising especially "Prime Vera" with its implied action in every group...