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Fenway Court contains Isabella Stewart Gardner's vast, ill-assorted art collection. Included among much of little or no value, are some of the finest Italian paintings in the country including a Simone Martini polytych, a small Giorgione, and Titian's "Rape of Europa." French and German portraits, Flemish tapestries, and oriental works are also discernible, and delightful, among the litter of Sargents, Sorollas, and Zorns...
After the first two performances, Britten emplaned for England, where his new opera The Rape of Lucretia opened last month and got even better notices than Peter Grimes. For the U.S. premiere of Lucretia, Britten would like to "bring over the original British company." Actor-producer Eddie (The Glass Menagerie) Dowling hopes to produce Peter Grimes on Broadway since Manhattan's starchy Metropolitan Opera has shown no real interest so far. The Metropolitan stood on history. Up to the era of Benjamin Britten, at least, no English-speaking composer has ever written a first-class grand opera...
...experience, even conservative bankers and businessmen, if not themselves involved in the official rape of the people, will bitterly admit that the Communists are more efficient and less corrupt, that they take less from the rice bowl of the common...
...Bataan. His power was an orderly flame. Down went the docks, warehouses, airfields. Down were to come the sugar-cake houses of the rich, the country clubs, the magnificent hotels, the Government buildings. And hundreds of thousands of Filipinos were still to die. The "death march" and the rape were yet to come...
Most everyone else who saw Picasso's latest show would as soon demand a thunderstorm without clouds or rain as a Picasso without smudges or spots. The faithful raved over a pinheaded, plump-breasted, dirty-white thing astride a horned and half-destroyed reddish-brown thing. Entitled The Rape of Europa, it was dated June 5, 1946. Asked one impious art-lover: "Between what hours did he paint it?" It seemed to have something to do with the Greek myth in which Zeus turned himself into a bull to carry off a pretty girl named Europa on his back...