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Sandro Botticelli. The play opens like a fancy dress ball. On the minute stage of the Provincetown Theatre are assembled people dressed up as Leonardo da Vinci, Lorenzo dei Medici, Fra Filippo Lippi, Sandro Botticelli and all manner of other notables of renaissance Florence. It is all very ingenious and very amusing. But the joke is run into the ground. All these grotesque masqueraders begin to take themselves seriously. You think you were wrong about the fancy dress. Casting sidelong glances about the garden of Lorenzo, you nervously seek the uniformed attendant. At any moment, you feel, some ardent damsel...
...Chicago Civic Opera Company chose, to open its second and last Boston week, Montemezzi's "L'Amore dei Tre Re," the libretto by Sem Benelli, with Miss Garden in the role of Flora. It is one of the less familiar operas that the Chicagoans have seen fit to sponsor, and they have succeeded in earning it a popular reception...
...Amore dei Tre Re" is a curious mixture of old and new tendencies, and represents perhaps the middle ground between an opera like "Rigoletto" and one which may be written twenty years from now. The music is entirely modern, melodically and harmonically, and modern the orchestration; and then, in contrast, one finds a story which, with its antique romanticism, would have recommended itself to Verdi. The time is the middle ages, and the story, quickly told, involves a wife who has been unfaithful to her husband while he is off fighting the invaders. His blind father knows the guilt...
...Harvard persists in its spirit of academic reserve, of stalwart refusal to admit that the "vox populi" is always the "vox Dei". It has at all times been a leader in American education because it has sought the Truth, and not because it has followed popular clamor. It has insisted on its right to set its own standards, no matter how defective they may have been; and in its students it has recognized the creative power of the individual and the small group as against the control of the crowd. The West may stand for that vague thing we call...
...Fogg Art Museum has again received from an anonymous lender in New York an important 15th century oil and tempera painting, attributed by Bernhard Berenson '87 to Pietro Dei France chi, called Piero Della Frances. The picture comes from the collection of the Colonna family in Rome, and was formerly in that of the Doria family in Milan. It is now exhibited at the Museum for the second time...