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...Contributing writer Peter J. Del Busto can be reached at delbusto@fas.harvard.edu
...concept of the repertory company is several thousand years older than Shakespeare: a troupe of actors who can perform in any of a dozen or more plays. By contrast with the one-shot, boffo-or-busto standards of commercial Broadway, the dream of the modern rep company is to produce plays that have merit in dramatic literature but only moderate box-office potential, to try out experimental plays and at the same time serve as a living library of the great classic plays of the past, to take green actors and train them to maturity in roles of all sizes...
...that she stirs only the mildest of ripples. But in Rio, where movie fans rarely see Hollywood oddities in the flesh, a hard-working girl can still stir a riot, especially at carnival time. Invited down for Mardi Gras by the Copacabana Palace Hotel, Jayne was instantly dubbed "0 Busto" and missed not an opportunity to justify the dubbing...
...pendulated across the Avenida Atlântica glued into her briefest bikini (thus causing a three-car crash), almost nothing stayed on. That night, as she danced in the Copacabana Palace Golden Room, an enterprising Brazilian yanked on the zipper at the back of her dress and. presto, 0 Busto was bare to the waist...
...turnabout resulted from a ludicrously simple one-word error in El Caribe last Oct. 27. By an unexplained fluke, a picture caption in that issue mentioned that flowers had been placed before Trujillo's tomb (tumba); the word should have been bust (busto). It was a fatal error, Ornes explained last week, because Trujillo "is very vain and superstitious. He thinks he is immortal, and the worst thing you can do is suggest his death." When he saw the word tumba in print, Ornes said to his U.S.-born wife: "This is the end of everything...