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...women producers,* Regina's Cheryl Crawford has managed to combine hardheaded business instinct and high-minded theatrical taste. The results were more praiseworthy than profitable until she found a knack for offbeat musicals: 1942's revival of Porgy and Bess, 1943's One Touch of Venus, 1947's Brigadoon-her biggest hit, after some of the town's canniest producers had turned it down...
...VENUS, THE LONELY GODDESS (155 pp.) -John Erskine-Morrow...
Whatever the ancient Greeks may have thought, life among the gods up there on Olympus wasn't always a bowl of nectar. Take the case of Venus, or let Author Erskine take it. Her mother-in-law Juno was a suspicious, embittered shrew. Sister-in-law Minerva, an athletic type, tried to knife her as soon as her back was turned...
...their elaborate efforts to provide a worthy council hall, the French finally abandoned their plan of installing a marble copy of the Medici Venus directly above the speaker's rostrum. Explained French Architect Bernard Monnet: "It would have shocked the British." Instead of Venus, he chose a discreetly robed Minerva. That was perhaps symbolic. The Council would not succeed through love; if it accomplished anything, it would do so in the ways of Minerva, a hardheaded and practical woman...
...well-fed merchant princes and other secular heroes, like the shrewd-eyed, poker-straight Doge Leonardo Loredano, resplendent in gold brocade and carved buttons, registered the pride and self-possession of the Renaissance itself. The work of Bellini's last years, in such paintings as the Toilet of Venus and Feast of the Gods, anticipated the frank delight in the human form which filled the canvasses of his two greatest pupils, Giorgione and Titian...