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Married. Jean Simmons, 31, hazel-eyed, London-born cinemactress (Sparta-cus); and Screenwriter-Director (Cat on a Hot Tin Roof) Richard Brooks, 48, ex-professional baseball player; after they first teamed together in Elmer Gantry; both for the second time; in Salinas, Calif...
...Walls." Among other things, this imaginary museum was a device for seeing the art of all ages out of context. With its equidistant tolerance toward previous cultures, and its technical means (reproductions, photographs) to appropriate the art objects of the past, the 20th century, according to Malraux, was the first civilization capable of "universal" vision. Even more intriguing was his theory, repeated in the current book, that art is modern man's unavowed religion...
...recondite art allusions to supply the Uffizi plus the Louvre. It is also argued with cool logic as Malraux delves into the epochs without museums, when art glorified religion. The metamorphosis of the gods, as Malraux describes it, was a little like the story of the Ten Little Indians. First they were sacred, then divine, then human, and then they were gone. This all took place between the creation of the Sphinx and the birth of Botticelli's Venus. The Egyptians could not know Aristotle, but he knew the secret of the Sphinx, for he laid down the basic...
...Salome with the Braunschweig Opera. In Bern, Tennessee-born Chloë Owen made outstanding debuts in Lohengrin and Mathis der Maler. Minnesota-born Bass-Baritone Keith Engen, 35, one of the stars of the Munich Opera, is so idolized in Germany that he obligingly changed the spelling of his first name to "Kieth" to make it easier for audiences...
...small fortune in Saskatchewan land speculation. In 1929 he went to North Bay, Ont. to sell radios, Branched into broadcasting to push his product and in 1934, for $200 down and $200 a month, bought a moribund weekly called the Timmins Press. One of the unfledged publisher's first moves was to send dime to each of 100 small U.S. dailies, hen the copies came in, Thomson read hem and reached his conclusion: "Jeez, here's nothing in them we can't do." The Timmins Press went daily...