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...scene of the poisoning was one of Borgian splendor: her spacious, high-ceilinged bedroom in the 17th century Villa Taverna, the residence of U.S. Ambassadors to Rome. When Ambassador Luce took over in Rome in late April 1953, she loved the bedroom at first sight, noted approvingly that the heavy-beamed ceiling-admired by a long line of predecessors as a fine example of Italian Renaissance décor-had been newly painted. The beams were in terra cotta green, decorated with cluster upon cluster of roses and rosettes. Many coats of heavy paint had been brushed onto the white...
Within the span of two brief seasons, Chicago's Lyric Theater, a nonprofit corporation organized to present grand opera, managed to restore much of the splendor and prestige of the old days of Mary Garden and Samuel Insull. Night after winter night, the huge Civic Opera House was sibilant with mink and sables while the stage vibrated under the temperaments of the highest-priced stars in the operatic firmament, e.g., Maria Meneghini Callas, Renata Tebaldi. Opera lovers began to think that the Lyric group might succeed where others had failed...
...architects' plans for the restoration of Memorial Hall to its former splendor have gone out to three contractors for their bids, Cecil A. Roberts, Superintendent of Buildings and Groups, said yesterday. As soon as an acceptable bid comes in, Roberts added, work will begin on the $80,000 to $100,000 job, which should be completed by the end of the summer...
...down the kidnapers: there is a melee in a taxidermist's shop, an encounter with the villains in a Non conformist chapel, a hand-to-hand struggle with the gun-wielding assassin in a velvet-curtained box at Albert Hall, a final showdown in the gilt-and-mirror splendor of a foreign embassy. Hitchcock alternates his chills with comedy, as when Jimmy is bitten by a stuffed tiger, and gets deft performances from both Stewart and Doris Day. But the pace grows laggard toward the end. Instead of using music as a background for action, Hitchcock moves...
...display of an idealized Anglo-Saxon world, engendered by the memories of emigres, for the dazzling colors in the humid warmth--halls, monuments and lawns arising from a deluge in which European civilization would have perished. At Harvard, white and blue bulbous bell-towers of the dormitories, with their splendor comparable to English chateaux, the Anthenian or Napoleonic-styled libraries, the trees sprayed with D.D.T. every week, Memorial Hall (which is a miniature Westminster), all appear to have been constructed to reassure young Americans of the existence of a past there is not American...