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...thunder." Ellington's musical rogue's gallery glimpses of Shakespearean heroes and heroines in turn inspired Choreographer Bejart to paste together a 45-minute dance work that he describes as "part serious, part caricature, part dowdy-like the Bolshoi." It turned out to be a kind of beatnik's As You Like...
McDarrah advertised beat lecturers, fund-raisers, photographic models, reciting poets (fees: $25 to $50 per evening). While more response came, not all clients were acceptable. McDarrah' turned down an interested trio of amateur photographers who wanted to improve their lens technique with beatnik girls. He had already found the sort of client he wanted when he sent beat Poet-Painter Ted Joans (ne Jones) to Scarsdale, where 32-year-old Joyce Barken, wife of a business executive, had turned her living room into a way-out coffeehouse, filled it up with the square root of society-doctors, lawyers, engineers...
...Beat. In Toronto, Ont., University of Toronto Student Ries Karvanque, capitalizing on the beatnik boom, charges $5 for appearing at parties in beatnik garb and letting the guests discuss her, $10 for playing the bongo drums, $15 for reciting beat poetry...
Venice's beatniks were delighted. Cried Lawrence (The Holy Barbarians) Lipton: "This is another witch hunt, another effort of the squares to put down the beats. Why, Whitman was the first beatnik-beard, sandals, the whole bit." Said Teacher Russell with tired irony: "They have probably started a greater Whitman revival than I ever could...
...talent two years ago in Gibson's Two for the Seesaw, this season's Bancroft is a stunning spectacle. As Gittel Mosca, the heartbroken Bronx-to-Bohemia hoyden of Seesaw, the young star still had an uncertain luster. There was a feeling that perhaps the black-stockinged beatnik was only playing herself. What would happen if she really...