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...impersonal face that the universe turns to them. Played with stormy authority by Actor Christopher Plummer, Pizarro lashes his men through an ordeal of fire, ice and fear into the serene court of Atahuallpa. They are greeted as gods, and prove the bloodiest of devils. In a slow-motion ballet of contained fury, the actors mime the slaughter of 3,000 Peruvians within an hour by 167 Spaniards...
BELL TELEPHONE HOUR (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Victor Borge is host, and the guests are Joan Sutherland, Benny Goodman and Ballet Dancer Jacques D'Amboise...
...took steps to move the artists and scholars upstairs. Under a sparkling autumn sun in the Rose Garden of the White House, he signed a threeyear, $63 million bill creating a National Foundation for the Arts and Humanities that will sponsor new national troupes for the theater, opera and ballet, commission new works of music, finance visits by great artists to U.S. schools, and subsidize community symphonies, repertory companies and art workshops. In effect, the bill establishes the U.S. Government as one of the biggest patrons of the arts any where - and makes Lyndon Johnson, unlikely as it may seem...
...Opera fans are probably traditionalists, secretly perhaps even monarchists. They are probably less concerned with facts and figures than devotees of the symphony or solo instruments, who often glory in the mathematical aspects of music. Opera lovers are also apt to be more intellectual and less sentimental than ballet fans, who are satisfied with generally second-rate musical scores and graceful or athletic bodily gyrations...
...London Times was typical: "This great ballet company, so sadly misunderstood when it came in 1950 and 1952, was now appreciated for its true, priceless worth. This is one of the noblest classic ballet companies of all time . . . The range of Balanchine is fantastic." He is the "unending, unflagging Mozart among choreographers." When the reviews appeared, the tickets were snapped up in a box-office crush that has meant S.R.O. audiences ever since...