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...home third in the Indianapolis 500, Arizona Auto Racer Jimmy Bryan had time to chew up only three cigars while he wheeled around the steeply banked track at Monza, Italy, and won Europe's first Indianapolis-style competition, with an average speed of 160.057 m.p.h. Indianapolis Veterans Troy Ruttman and Johnny Parsons finished second and third. The only non-Indianapolis-type cars to compete were British Jaguars, and three of them, entered by the same Scots team that swept the 24-hour Grand Prix at Le Mans, France, came in behind Parsons. So fast was the new Italian track...
...stretches out to an immense 9 by 13 feet. It was painted 100 years after the birth of the nation by a Massachusetts primitive named Erastus Salisbury Field "to get up a brief history of our country in a monumental form." The monumental form seems to combine Babel and Troy with intimations of modern Manhattan-its skyscraping towers connected at the top by railroad bridges. The history, told in statues and bas-reliefs, ranges from the rescue of Captain John Smith by Pocahontas to the imminent assassination of Lincoln by Booth as Washington anachronistically holds up his hand...
Warmed-Over Virgil. Actually, The Trojans is really two operas in one. The first part tells the story of the fall of Troy, while the second describes the tattered survivors at Carthage and the love story of Dido and Aeneas. The Berlioz libretto is warmed-over Virgal shot through with a Shakespearean flavor (Berlioz described parts of it as "stolen from Shakespeare and Virgilianized"). To give the sprawling work a proper production and still hold it to a manageable 4½ hours (with only minor cuts), Covent Garden prepared lavish sets and drew on all its artistic and mechanical resources...
...criticism--"When we are bound to a tedious conversation,/We pay attention to the words themselves/Until they lose their sense.." Roger Moore's whimsical dealings with a similar subject turn out to be fun, but that is all. James Reiger's piece on the fall of the Civitas (of Troy or of God?) may be intended as humorous, but the subject does not strike one as very funny. Whatever Reiger's attitude, his irony collapses in confusion with the mock melodrama of "O tell it not in Askelon,/Let not the daughters of Gath rejoice!" Reiger himself seems undecided whether...