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...Once again the company is what it was intended to be when it was organized 25 years ago -a grand gallery of the dance. From its vast and varied repertory of a hundred ballets, the company staged old classics like La Fille Mai Gardée and Giselle, typical Americana like Agnes de Mille's Fall River Legend and Eugene Loring's Billy the Kid, pure abstract dance like George Balanchine's Theme and Variations...
...Beach's top architect, Morris Lapidus, from whose drawing board have sprung such pacesetting superhotels as the $40 million Fontainebleau, the $20 million Americana (in nearby Bal Harbour) and the $12 million Eden Roc, has the same idea. He explains: "I'm not designing hotels. I'm designing stage settings on which people will play out their two-week vacations...
AMERICA'S JUNIOR MISS PAGEANT (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). A genuine slice of Americana, this beauty contest searches for "the ideal high school senior girl" and is broadcast in color with TV Teacher James Franciscus (Mr. Novak) as host...
...about the Old West, scholarly historians and pulp novelists alike have ignored the fact that Negro cowboys rode in most of the drives from Texas to the cattle markets, and were respected, liked, and paid on a basis of wits and skill rather than color. An overdue addition to Americana...
...limbo, jazz and Gay Nineties joints scattered all along San Juan's quaint and narrow streets, Mexican, Cuban, Spanish and Italian nightclubs that rock nightly to trumpets and guitars. Last week Comic Jackie Mason held forth at the Caribe Hilton, Eartha Kitt was belting them out at the Americana, and strolling violins pierced the air in the Shalom Room of the Lee Hotel, which features its own synagogue. For the economy class, San Juan's hotel row has hatched two Red Rooster restaurants ("where corned beef and pastrami are king"); another, in staid Old San Juan, was discreetly...