Word: yarn
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...crew of ballet dancers in goggles and aprons was busy on a Boston stage, pounding together a Victorian-styled spaceship for a nostalgic trip to the moon. The occasion: the U.S. premiere of Jacques Offenbach's minor operetta Voyage to the Moon, based on Jules Verne's yarn. First performed in Paris in 1875, Offenbach's Voyage caused a momentary sensation among premature space bugs, then disappeared from the repertory and has rarely been seen since. The story, as revived by the newly formed Boston Opera Group, concerns one Prince Caprice of the Kingdom of Flambeau...
...collections of a 19th century U.S. railroad tycoon, a Social Registered Manhattan spinster of Nieuw Amsterdam lineage, and a young Ivy League yarn manufacturer are on display this week in Minneapolis and Manhattan-and they add up a high score for continuous good taste ranging back over 75 years. The lesson seems to be: "If you buy what you like, you are probably right...
...Guest House. Given his first print, Picasso's Dance of Salome, by his father when he was a 13-year-old schoolboy in Switzerland, he bought 19th century French Realist Gustave Courbet's Château Bleu six months after graduating from Yale. Prosperous from his family yarn business, he has steadily bought works by 20th century French, German and American artists. His house in suburban Greenwich, Conn, is filled to the bathroom walls, and the lawn has a skyward-staring, 5½-ft. bronze, The Manipulator, by British Sculptor-Welder Reg Butler. Still sticking to his father...
...Ridge, Tenn., to research a new yarn with an atomic science background, prolific Novelist Pearl (The Good Earth) Buck, 65, passed on a bit of literary advice to a young reporter: "Don't worry about spelling, punctuation, paragraphs. Get your story on paper. You can always find someone to correct your grammar...
Died. H. M. (for Henry Major) Tomlinson, 84, self-taught, world-renowned English novelist (Gallions Reach), Conrad-like chronicler of his own seafaring adventures (The Sea and the Jungle) and essayist (A Mingled Yarn), onetime (World War I) correspondent (for the London Daily News) and (1917-23) literary editor (of the Nation and Athenaeum) ; in London...