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Four months from now he expects to be in Buenos Aires, next month he expects to visit Albuquerque, next week he goes to Indianapolis, this week he was giving a concert in Carnegie Hall and celebrating his 57th birthday in Manhattan. Despite wartime transportation, Polish-born Artur Rubinstein, who in 40 years has traveled well over 1,000,000 miles, still trots the globe almost as fast and far as ever...
...Dame. They raised Steinway Hall's roof with incessant rehearsals. They were out to prove, once & for all, that opera does not have to be sung by middle-aged tenors and bulging contraltos. Between arias, they hotly argued this revolutionary' idea over hamburgers and milk in the 57th Street Automat. To the participants the New Opera is more than opera: it is a crusade. They came from all over the U.S., Canada, Mexico, even Hawaii, picked by audition from thousands of young singers who have applied for a chance to prove that they could sing big-time opera...
Such is the entry of a new museum opened last week for the benefit of the Red Cross by jet-haired Miss Guggenheim, wife of Painter Max Ernst. Under the name Art of This Century, Miss Guggenheim's four-roomed gallery (30 West 57th) is to be a permanent show. All owned by herself, the collection of 171 exhibits (14 by Husband Ernst) is reputed to be the biggest of its kind...
...Pushman studio on Manhattan's 57th Street, shrouded in a velvety dimness, are all the beautiful things which Artist Pushman loves and exquisitely paints. For 20 years they have been appearing in his still lifes: tiny porcelain vases, lustrous Aegean flasks, Tibetan figurines, pieces of splendid brocade, the yellowed pages of ancient books. In his tallboy, lined with crimson plush, are row upon row of Buddhas, Oriental gods of war, of laughter, or mercy, of unimaginable things. Mr. Pushman says gently...
Every school day since 1899 Teacher Bridgman has marched with corpulent dignity through the gloomy doors of the Art Students League on 57th Street. Says he: "I have weathered the stormy days at the League when Emma Goldman, as well as other communists, lectured at the institution, shouting 'down with the Louvre, throw it into the Seine, and the Royal Academy into the Thames. Tear down the Metropolitan Museum stone by stone and burn the works of the brush-swinging hacks that go by the name of Old Masters.' " When, in 1936, the League's models staged...