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Dates: during 1950-1950
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Puccini: II Tabarro, Gianni Schicchi (Cetra-Soria, 2 sides LP each). These two one-acters, with Suor Angelica, make up Puccini's Triptych, which had its world premiere at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House in 1918. Gianni Schicchi, which still survives at the Met, is a bright and appealing piece of foolishness. In this recording, it is a roaring fine vehicle for first-rate Baritone Giuseppe (Falstaff) Taddei. Il Tabarro (The Cloak) is Puccini at his most melodramatic blood & thundering. These Radio Italiana performances give both operas their full due; so does the recording...
...made their car's hood too long and its body too short. Besides, the whole thing was out of perspective. Nonsense, cried De Chirico: "I did not want to follow the usual line of ad painting based on cubism, abstractionism and all the other isms. I always make it a point to paint things precisely as they...
Temperamental Artist. Not all spiders make prey-catching webs. Of the web-makers, the genus Aranea is the master weaver and engineer. Aranea spins the familiar but complicated "orb web" a large number of segmented rings on a framework of 25 to 35 spokes. Although the typical orb web may have 13,000 or more tie-lines, the spider makes a new web every day, and, like a temperamental artist, never deigns to do repair work. She* puts glue on the silk to make it sticky. To prevent quick drying (or for some other reason), the glue is concentrated...
House spiders, whose implacable enemy is the housewife, make thick, haphazard webs which Author Crompton regards as a mess. This spider spins only at night, but works indefatigably, and is willing to mend and patch. The only mouse ever recorded as caught and killed by a spider was the victim of a house spider. In Britain, the biggest house spider has a body nearly an inch long, and, counting the legs, is four inches across. This monster is called "the cardinal," because once, at Hampton Court, one scared the 16th Century's Cardinal Wolsey almost to death...
Stupid Wolf. Among the arachnids which do not make webs are the "wolf spiders" or hunters, which live in little parapets like watchtowers, from which they leap forth and run down their prey by sheer speed. This group includes the stupid Lycosa, which, when deprived of her cocoon containing young, will accept a cork ball of the same shape and fondle it tenderly. There is also the jumping spider, which stalks her prey like a cat, and pounces when in range. The jumping spider has the best eyesight of all arachnids, with four of her eight eyes on the flattened...