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Mercury's current hit, The Way to the Tomb by Cornish Farmer Ronald Duncan, has St. Anthony as its topic, modern materialism for its target. The first half of the play, an austere masque, tells of Anthony's attempts to find God. The three monks who feed him, sing to him and argue with him represent his three temptations (the belly, the senses and intellectual pride); but even when he conquers fleshly pleasures through a death-fast, he has still to cast out the sin of pride...
...second half of the play satirizes a group of modern debunkers who skeptically visit St. Anthony's tomb, gloatingly find it empty. But after they have gone Anthony reappears, praising the faith of a poor postcard hawker who has continued to believe...
...pounds to commemorate many of these same G.l.s. St. Paul's is to have a new memorial, a chapel. Dedicated to Americans who in World War II fell fighting from England in the cause that was also England's, it will stand close to Nelson's tomb under the great dome...
...will throw out what Director Francis Henry Taylor calls the "bronze grapefruit tree" lamps that flank the entrance, and the gingerbread decorations inside, will re-do the 25 formidable front steps so that they do not make people shrink and slink as they climb them. The giant tomb of Perneb, which stands like a road block before the Egyptian wing, will be tucked into place about two blocks away. The Met will also put in escalators for weary museum-feet, a new, airy restaurant for the hungry, a radio-broadcasting and television studio for the stayaways...
Still in their minds was Adolf Hitler's triumphal visit to Paris in June, 1940. He nursed three ambitions: to sign the armistice at Compiègne, to visit Napoleon's tomb and to enjoy a performance of the Paris Opéra. Hitler and his entourage were solicitously shepherded around the Opéra by agile, gypsylike ballet master Serge Lifar and the massive pro-German Wagnerian soprano, Mme. Germaine Lubin. Next night the opera company put on a command performance...