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Three daughters had the late Robert W. Gibson, wealthy architect, designer of the New York Botanical Garden Museum. Lydia was a leftist. A painter, sculptress, contributor to the old (Communist) Masses and Liberator, she became in 1922 the wife of well-known Communist Leader Robert Minor. Already she had been banished from the Social Register. Poor dear Lydia was beyond the pale...
...Boston Museum now contains a collection of four small but expertly done paintings by Leon Bakst, chief artist for the "Ballet Russe" when Diaghilev was in charge of its production. Bakst is of great historical importance because his method and style revolutionized the application of the decorative arts to the theatre. The main tenet which symbolized the essence of his program was unity, unity not only as far as the technique of his art was concerned but also in regard to the emotional compactness of the entire artistic production. Bakst's designs for scenery and costume were unique in that...
...Manhattan's vast Metropolitan Museum for an indefinite visit will go the five classical Greek statues, one ascribed to Praxiteles, which have been a star turn at the World of Tomorrow. Too precious to run the risk of torpedoes is the first group of originals that has left Greece since Lord Elgin carried off the treasures of the Acropolis to London's British Museum more than a century ago. Premiums on the five statues' insured value of $2,000,000 presumably will be paid by the Metropolitan...
Where once they carried water into rough wooden dormitories, they gaped at 100 modern brick buildings, an art museum, a 50,000-volume library (named for Alumnus Oliver Wendell Holmes), a new infirmary, an archeological museum, a carillon tower, a forest sanctuary. "Where," grumped Edgar B. Sherrill, '98, "is the Deanery?" "There it is, sir," replied great-nephew Arthur Miles Sherrill Jr., 13, pointing to an imposing new brick-and-concrete commons...
...Except for a homemade planetarium at Springfield, Mass, which does not show planets. Contrived by Technician Frank Korkosz of Springfield's Museum of Natural History, it cost less than $12,000. Cost of Buhl star thrower...