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...VENUS IN SPARTA, by Louis Auchincloss (280 pp.; Houghfon Mifflin; $3.50), is about a kind of hidebound Dr. Jekyll whose double life eventually destroys him. At 45, Michael Parish is a member of all the right New York clubs, a trustee of his Grotonesque prep school, and in line for the presidency of a Wall Street bank. He has always tried to measure up to the principles he learned at his mother's knee -live on the right side of the park, and never attend matinees. But a series of rude intrusions disrupt his neat, parklike existence. First...
...thirteenth season of the Boston Summer Theatre. In its first eleven years, it averaged one or two works of top quality each season amidst a mass of mediocrity. Last summer producer Lee Falk offered nothing but plays of high quality--Jonson's Volpone, Anouilh's Thieves' Carnival, Fry's Venus Observed, Shaw's Back to Methuselah, Giraudoux's The Madwoman of Chaillot, and Graham Greene's The Potting Shed. The 1958 season of eight plays constituted a letdown from last year, but it was far better than all the pre-1957 seasons...
Dreaminess & Hate. The program included selections from Weill's later works written for the Broadway stage-Lady in the Dark and One Touch of Venus. But what the crowd had turned out to hear was a concert version of the Marc Blitzstein adaptation of Threepenny Opera, which last week marked its 1,200th performance at the off-Broadway Theater de Lys. Dressed in a royal blue frock, her carroty blonde hair drawn loosely back with combs, Lenya appeared in the role she created in Berlin in 1928 and made famous-that of Jenny, the bitter, dream-haunted London prostitute...
...back to the Louvre whole collections of Egyptian and Assyrian art. In 1820 the French Ambassador to Turkey was able to pick up five fragments of marble on the island of Melos for 1,200-1,500 francs ($230-$285). Pieced together, they became the Louvre's famed Venus de Milo...
...collection. Brown rounded up $2,500,000 to buy it, only to have Greek Shipowner Stavros Niarchos raise the bid to more than $3,000,000 (TIME. March 11, 1957). But under Brown's quarterbacking, new pieces have come pouring in (including Fragonard's Mademoiselle Colombe as Venus from Marion Davies, an early Rembrandt and four outstanding Gobelin tapestries from Oil Tycoon J. Paul Getty). Attendance has swelled to over 1,000,000 a year...