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...Schwartz company gets its fireflies from the southern states of the U.S., where they are collected by youngsters and shipped to Mount Vernon on dry ice. In charge of the 1960 firefly hunt was Marc Cohn, now 19, the son of an atomic scientist at Oak Ridge, Tenn. During the 1960 season he and his teams collected more than 1,000,000 flashing firefly tails...
Brandeis University Marc Chagall, artist. H.L.D...
...good shoemaker" and the "poor fish peddler" who were executed in 1927 after a bitter, seven-year battle in court, in the press and in many minds, keep agitating American imaginations. Composer Marc Blitzstein is writing an opera about them, and an off-Broadway producer is planning a musical. This week NBC presents the second installment of its two-part Sacco-Vanzetti Story, billed as a "dramatic interpretation of the much-disputed case." Taken together, the two taped installments provide two absorbing hours, somewhat marred by overly insistent pleading...
Forthright and articulate about art, reticent about himself, Russian-born Painter Marc Chagall, 72, long a French resident, arrives in the U.S. to get an honorary doctor's degree next week at Brandeis University. Sounding somehow like a Somerset Maugham character, he told a Manhattan newswoman: "When one is young, one thinks of a goal in art. One talks. One reacts-as I did against cubism. But when one is older, one does what one does. One doesn't talk." Why does he still paint things reminiscent of his native city of Vitebsk, a good half-century after...
...well be sung before long from the stage of the Metropolitan Opera House-and quite an aria they would make for Leonard Warren or Giorgio Tozzi. Last week the Met announced that it has taken an option on a Sacco-Vanzetti opera by 55-year-old Composer Marc Blitzstein, to be written on commission from the Ford Foundation...