Word: summered
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...nine months a year the average art collector cannot be separated from his collection. But in summer vacation time the art turns into a burden, vulnerable to theft and damage. "Most collectors send their paintings to their favorite dealers or store them in a warehouse, or sometimes leave them locked up at home," says Manhattan's Metropolitan Museum of Art Director James Rorimer. "We'd rather have them on our walls...
...Theodore Rousseau Jr., the Met's curator of European paintings, deciding to hang them there, launched a campaign to persuade collectors to use the museum as their storage room. "I began asking, 'Are you going away this summer?' and got responses. So I took a gallery, cleared it out and put the paintings in." The Met has continued this policy every summer, given special billing to six summer collectors' shows since 1949. This year's, on view this week in eight newly added Met galleries, is twice as large as any of the past...
...this summer, with the performance of Mozart's The Marriage of Figaro, the Residenztheater was born anew, and with it, Munich launched a summerlong celebration of its Sooth anniversary. Last week, the Bavarian State Opera performed Mozart's Abduction from the Seraglio as part of Munich's opera festival. Said Residenztheater Restorer Sepp Huf: "We wanted to re-create the warm, glowing, golden tones of the 18th century as a present to the people of Munich on the occasion of their town's Sooth birthday. I think they will appreciate...
...good news flashed through Madison, Ind. (pop. 10,500) like summer heat lightning. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was coming to town to shoot a $2,500,000 production of James Jones's bad bestselling novel, Some Came Running. Local businessmen came running with promises not to raise prices; local police pitched in to protect M-G-M props; the country club and five hotels and motels were turned over to the movie folk. Nothing so exciting had happened to the green, hilly little Ohio River town since P. T. Barnum brought Jenny Lind to sing in the Pork Palace...
...them could understand the lyrics, but none of them could escape the tune. Wherever they went in Italy this summer, tourists were attacked by the lilting, insidious and all-but-meaningless lyrics of Nel Blu, Dipinto di Bin (In the Blue, Painted Blue). From nightclub star to curbside troubadour, everyone was belting out the refrain of Italy's most popular song. And the tourists were humming it before they went home...