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...Actor John Rich, who had rented the site, a convent-garden, built a prose theater (its star playwrights: Oliver Goldsmith and Richard Sheridan). After a devastating fire, the theater was rebuilt in 1809, later named the Royal Italian Opera House. It featured not only opera but all-night masked balls whose patrons, wrote a shocked reporter, "were truly the disciples of the lewd fiend Belial." One gay dawn in 1856, the place burned down again, scattering and sobering the disciples...
...Senior Prom and its underclass version, the Freshmore, are the two biggest dances of the year. All-night prom parties for the upperclass event are arranged by a committee of the Parent-Teachers Association in a futile attempt to keep students from driving 25 miles to Chicago night-spots after the dance...
...behind the two-hit pitching of the Crime's ace hurler, John "Fireball" Adler. The radiomen claimed fatigue as the reason for their defeat. As one member said, following the contest, "An orgy can take a lot out of a man." He was referring to the station's recent all-night music shows...
...martinet but the idol of his men, Bigeard whipped them into shape by running them as much as 15 miles at a time. He made them shave every day, no matter where they were, doled out raw onions instead of the traditional wine ration because "wine reduces stamina." With all-night marches and sudden paratroop raids, he won every engagement, became so successful at outwitting the rebels ("He thinks like a fellagha," says one of his officers) that the army put him in charge of a special school which next month will begin to give French officers intensive training...
...Picasso (Harper; $4.95 ; Ridge Press paperback; $1.50) a photographic record of Picasso's private life. The scenes range from a scrub in a tub and carving a chicken ("Could have been carved just about as daintily-and just as fast-by stuffing it with a hand grenade") to all-night engraving sessions during which "Picasso's companion, Jacqueline Roque, watched him, sleepy and adoring...