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...does not have any special flair." Observes Françoise Giroud, co-editor of Paris' L'Express: "Lady Bird is the sort of person quí ne provoque pas les sentiments-she does not evoke feelings. Who cares about a grey lady bird?" And in London, a BBC executive snorted, "She's so beige!" But Yolande Gwin, society editor of the Atlanta Journal, put it more positively. "She's just plain old down-South Lady Bird," says she. "I think she's a much better symbol of the American woman and mother than Jacqueline Kennedy...
...best performing in the U.S. this summer, but this remains to be seen, since its opening night is Aug. 18. The group consists of 25 English Shakespearean actors, many of them graduates of the Old Vic. Assembled in London by Peter Dews, who produced and directed the BBC's An Age of Kings, the company will give 52 performances in the open air of Ravinia Park. King Henry V and Hamlet will be played by Robert Hardy, who played Laertes to Richard Burton's Hamlet at the Old Vic in 1953-54 and became one of Burton...
With a miracle of muddling, all five may yet survive the year. The London Symphony, the London Philharmonic and the BBC Symphony are sound, if occasionally lackluster; and all five can depend on a corps of musicians willing to play for incomes that average only $4,500 a year. All have plenty of work: by the end of the concert season next month, Festival Hall will have held 190 orchestral concerts in nine months, leading the orchestras to wonder if they aren't suffering from a surfeit of their own music making...
Such stunts were scarcely noticed beneath the spell cast by the premiere. With Dorati conducting the BBC Symphony and Chorus and Actor Stephen Murray narrating the dark libretto, Gerhard's difficult music got the intense performance it requires and deserves. The audience-having held its emotional breath for 40 minutes-re sponded with a sustained ovation...
Trills & Cackles. Dr. Baeumer's chick-talk tapes, which are considered classics in animal-behavior circles, have been played at universities in many countries and broadcast over BBC. The genial doctor himself has mastered nearly all the nuances of chicken language and can play a weighty role in any chicken society. He knows the loneliness cries of young chicks separated from their mother ("Pieep-pieep-pieep") and their terror trills-a high-pitched "Trr-trr." Both hens and roosters make "frightened" cackles when first they sense danger. After the danger passes, their cackling is full-throated and rhythmical...