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PETULA CLARK: THE WORLD'S GREATEST INTERNATIONAL HITS (Warner). The Downtown darling of the younger generation smoothly shifts gears and heads uptown, where the ballad lovers live, picking her wistful way through ethnic pop favorites like Volare, Girl From Ipanerna and Never on Sunday. The beat is still tricky enough to please the youngsters, although they might balk at her slow version of Britain's second national anthem- I Want to Hold Your Hand...
...commission, the Scottish Regency produced its evidence that Mary was madly infatuated with Bothwell and had conspired with him to do away with her husband. Called the Casket Letters because allegedly they were recovered from a silver casket belonging to Mary, the documents consisted of eight letters, a love ballad supposedly written by Mary, and two marriage contracts she reputedly signed with Bothwell. On this evidence, historians have generally concluded that Mary was involved in, or at least aware of, the plot to kill her husband...
...object of nation-wide attention last spring when he was fired from his post as a fourth-grade teacher in the predominantly-Negro Gibson School in Roxbury. The reason given him was that, along with poems by Frost, Longfellow and Yeats, he had read to his pupils Langston Hughes' "Ballad of the Slumlord," a poem not listed in the Curriculum Guide. Despite the highly vocal efforts of many satisfied parents, he failed to win reinstatement...
Burton Lane's songs are lighthearted and lyrical, very much in keeping with the strange whimsy of this show. The title song gets caught in Louis Jourdan's throat and could profitably be eliminated, but the ballad "Melinda" lingers nicely. Once back in the days of yore, the Rabelasian dance numbers capture the theatre, due partly to the clever choreography of Herbert Ross. The sequence by the Publick Trysting Place, in particular, almost explodes with action. There can be little wonder that it should, however, for the budget of this show easily permitted the choreographer a fine stable of nimble...
Dunn dazzled Broadway a year and a half ago with a bravura performance as Cousin Lymon in Edward Albee's adaptation of Carson McCullers' Ballad of the Sad Café. He spat Henry Miller-authored obscenities in the 1963 Spoleto Festival production of Just Wild About Harry. He plays Karl Glocken in the film version of Ship of Fools, which premières this week. He is the comic-villain Mr. Big in an early episode of Get Smart, a promising new TV series due in September. And just to prove that acting...