Art: Stage Design

The agonized wail of police sirens called Manhattan's attention to one of the most important art events of the season last week. Nearly 4,000 persons jammed their way into the Museum of Modern Art with a popping of flashlights and a grinding of sound cameras that made it look like a Hollywood opening. Totally unable to see what the museum had to show, the guests milled slowly up & down stairs and looked at one another. Besides Soviet Ambassador Alexander Antonovich Troyanovsky, they included: Mary Pickford, Otto H. Kahn, Dolores Del Rio,...

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