They were “a small group of art professionals, many of them from Ivy League colleges and top U.S. museums, who, in the last days of [World War II] and well after the surrender of Germany, secured and preserved millions of European cultural objects looted by the Nazis and returned them to the nations from which they had been taken.”
Archives for January 29, 2014
Why Is Peter Pan Always Played By a Woman?
There are certainly teenaged boys who could do it, and J.M. Barrie originally wanted the stage role to be filled by a male. So how did we end up with Mary Martin and Cathy Rigby? A combination of historical happenstance and English labour law.