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...moment she walked on stage as Mimi in Puccini's La Bohème. She reminded one critic of Italy's "gorgeous-looking, immensely skillful actresses," surprised everyone when her warm singing and touching performance equaled her looks. In her second opera, a sunny revival of Cherubim's The Portuguese Inn, the San Francisco Chronicle's Alfred Frankenstein called her "the very incarnation of youthful feminine grace and vivacity." Even before she had appeared in her other roles (in Mozart's Marriage of Figaro, Massenet's Manon), the San Francisco Opera decided to invite...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Triple Treat | 10/4/1954 | See Source »

...refusing mercy to a kneeling headmaster) and a touch of defeatism. On the subject of how to get out of divinity instruction, for instance. Molesworth says: "You could try being let down into the class dressed as an angel. You then sa to the master Lo who are these cherubim and seraphim who are continually crying. He repli Form 3 B. You then sa Lo they are not angles but angels with the xception of peason who hav a face like a baboon. You must dismiss them and the master oba." But after this fine start, the plotter adds dispiritedly...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Skoolsfor Skandal | 9/20/1954 | See Source »

...reactions of Venice's art lovers ranged all the way from bewilderment to outright anger. "Art is a religion," growled 85-year-old Giuseppe Cherubim, dean of Venetian painters. "If it were up to me, I would do as Christ did when he kicked the profaners out of the temple. These paintings are made with water and idle talk." But idle or not, spatialism was the talk of Venice. During the first week, 4.000 crushed in for a look at the atomic fireballs and glowing pinholes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Outside Is Everything | 5/26/1952 | See Source »

Foils: Neilson (C) beat Jertson, 5-2, and Sollee, 5-1. Cherubim (C) beat Sollee, 5-2, and Martin, 5-2. Jertson beat Cherubim (C), 5-4. Rubin (C) beat Martin, 5-3, Jertson, 5-2, and Sollee, 5-3. Martin beat Stratos...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Strong Columbia Fencers Conquer Crimson, 17 to 10 | 2/23/1951 | See Source »

What is deep, as love is deep, I'll have Deeply. What is good, as love is good, I'll have well. Then if time and space Have any purpose, I shall belong to it. If not, if all is a pretty fiction To distract the cherubim and seraphim Who so continually do cry, the least I can do is to fill the curled shell of the world With human deep-sea sound, and hold...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: Enter Poet, Laughing | 11/20/1950 | See Source »

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