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...widow of English poet Harold Monro will read from the works of her husband Wednesday at 4 p.m. in the Lamont Forum room. Mrs. Monro will also select works of those associated with Monro's well-known Poetry Book ship in London, including T. S. Eliot and Ezra Pound...
Framingham, Mass., Carousel Theater: Kathryn Grayson waltzing through The Merry Widow...
With fake Utrillos appearing on the market almost daily, the French impressionist's splenetic widow, Lucie Valore Utrillo, 63, happily incinerated 30 recently uncovered forgeries in the garden of her Montmartre home. While Lucie grandly called the ten-minute conflagration the salvation of her henpecked husband's reputation, a few witnesses cattily concluded that she was just trying to protect the market value of her collection (a recent Utrillo auction price: $52,000), insisted that the longtime alcoholic painter-in order to earn the purchase price of more liquor than his wife allowed him-had moonlighted a great...
Having broken all the toys in his theatrical playpen, Critic Steiner feels a twinge of remorse. He closes his book with the memory of a great tragic moment in the modern theater. It was a performance by Helene Weigel, widow of Bertolt Brecht, in Brecht's Mother Courage. Mother Courage has just been forced to look at her dead soldier son twice without permitting herself a sign of recognition: "As the body was carried off, Weigel looked the other way and tore her mouth wide open. The shape of the gesture was that of the screaming horse in Picasso...
...oratorio in 1915, started to write the music but was interrupted by World War I service in the Austrian army. He abandoned the score for more than 20 years, returned to it in 1945 but never finished it. At the request of Gertrude Schoenberg, the composer's widow, the score was prepared for performance by Composer-Conductor Winfried Zillig after a painstaking study of Schoenberg's musical sketchbook. A onetime student of Schoenberg's, Zillig claims that the score as played in Vienna "contains not a single note that is not by Schoenberg himself...