Monster Mash: LACMA’s red ink; Charlie Chaplin museum in Switzerland; Galileo’s fingers

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-- Financial trouble: LACMA loses 23% of its investments in the last fiscal year. One victim is Jeff Koons’ dangling train project, which was scheduled to arrive at LACMA in 2011-12, and is now delayed for three more years. (Los Angeles Times and Bloomberg)

-- Little tramp: A long-planned museum dedicated to Charlie Chaplin, pictured, will be constructed at the site of the actor’s former home in Switzerland. (Radio Suisse Romande)

-- Discovery: Two severed fingers and a tooth belonging to Galileo have been identified by a museum in Florence, Italy. (CNN)

-- Landing on their feet: Two actors from the recently closed Broadway revival of ‘Brighton Beach Memoirs’ have landed roles in the upcoming revival of ‘A View from the Bridge.’ (New York Times)

-- Major project: A $208-million concert hall in Helsinki, Finland, is intended to improve on the existing Finlandia Hall, but it’s already 50% over projected costs. (Bloomberg)

-- Winner: Jez Butterworth’s ‘Jerusalem’ was named best play at the London Evening Standard Theatre Awards. (Playbill)

-- Operatic great: Swedish soprano Elisabeth Soderstrom has passed away at age 82. (Telegraph)

-- Moving up: ‘Enter Laughing,’ which has had two runs off-Broadway, is aiming for a Broadway engagement in the fall of 2010. (Variety)

-- And in the L.A. Times: The L.A. Philharmonic’s ‘West Coast, Left Coast’ festival begins; a look at the Broadway production of ‘Fela!’

-- David Ng