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...Artist Marc Chagall believes in "God, Mozart and color." The Metropolitan Opera's Rudolf Bing believes in Mozart, Chagall and boxoffice. Thus, when the Met scheduled a new production of The Magic Flute, it seemed only right that the 79-year-old Chagall should design the sets and costumes. No matter that he had never before tried his hand at opera; The Magic Flute is fantasy, and in that misty, mystical medium Chagall is the original beautiful dreamer. "He is so very right for it," said Bing...
Among the more spectacular Indian Sophs are freestyler Carl Robinson, who barely missed snapping the Williams pool record at 100 yards, backstroker Al Petersen and diver Marc Labovitz...
...into his cartoonlike paintings. In Resurrection (see opposite page), a kneeling figure with acidic red, green and black tresses holds his hands over his ears while the trumpet of the Apocalypse sounds. There is a wit, a gay stylization, a fluid jumble of forms without regard to gravity that Marc Chagall continued in his secularized icons on canvas...
...house with Max Schuster. When Cerf showed interest in replacing him, Simon arranged for Cerf to meet Horace Liveright for lunch at the Algonquin Hotel, Scotch-and-watering place for the famous authors and wits of the day. "There," he says, "were Robert Sherwood, George S. Kaufman, Marc Connelly, Dorothy Parker-all of them! Sitting at the Round Table! I was delirious! In the middle of the lunch, I called Wall Street and told them I was never coming back...
...THREE BANNERS OF CHINA by Marc Riboud. 216 pages. Macmillan. $12.50. Another objective glance at Red China, including visits to Buddhist caves, a girls' dormitory at Kunming University and a Peking divorce court. The pictures were taken last year; and, since Riboud, a French journalist, spent four months in China in 1957, he is informative on the contrasts and changes since then. In sum, he sees it as a land that would be a hell for Westerners but bearable for Eastern peasants. The Chinese are constantly exhorted to read the works of Mao Tse-tung daily, and Riboud offers...