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LAMP UNTO MY FEET (CBS, 10-10:30 a.m.). "Jephthah's Daughter," an original ballet featuring Carmen de Lavallade and the John Butler Dancers...
...these pictures are valuable as archives-but not as art. Like most ballet films, they were made by men who know plenty about dance but almost nothing about film. The first thing these people have to learn is that a ballet cannot successfully be put on film until it has been radically rechoreo-graphed for the camera. What is required is a simple marriage of two modes of movement, and Red Shoes demonstrated that several million ballet buffs will support the normal offspring of such a marriage. No more monsters, please...
...alarmed by the conflict and the escalation conducted in Southeast Asia by foreign intervention, of a world which has no future except in peace." As its piece de resistance, De Gaulle's government signed two more agreements covering an exchange of students and teachers, of ballet, concert and other cultural groups, and technical study teams that will explore, among other things, the peaceful uses of nuclear energy...
...charlatan of alchemy named Subtle (O'Sullivan) and a trollop, Dol Common (Nancy Marchand). This trio of con artists gull the gullible - clerks, widows, fortune hunters such as Sir Epicure Mammon (George Voskovec), and hypocritical Puritans. As written by Jonson, the play has the shapely precision of a ballet, wittily danced to the themes of vanity, greed, cunning, lust and fraud. As directed by Jules Irving, it becomes a shapeless clown show...
...schools are currently being organized at Princeton, Dartmouth, Cornell, Pennsylvania and the University of New Mexico. At Princeton, 54 students are enrolled in such courses as "The Contemporary American Novel" and "How to Play the Recorder"; next year student organizers of the program hope to offer a class in ballet...