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...featured work was La Sylphide, choreographed by famed August Bournonville in 1836 and passed down virtually unchanged from lip to toe. It begins with a round of mimed action during which some observers usually expect the dancers to burst into recitative and aria at any moment. The white-clad sylph (Margrethe Schanne), her supernatural character implicit in the tiny wings at her waist, falls in love with the Scotch farm boy (Henning Kronstam); but when the family arrives, she dashes over to the fireplace and literally whisks up the chimney...
...Discreet Career Girl. O-Koi, second of the geishas, tailored her kimono-clad ambitions along career-woman lines. Her first lover was a stockbroker, her only husband a famed Kabuki actor who later deserted her. After two leading wrestlers (as prestigious in Japan as bullfighters in Spain) staged a public match for her favors, she came to the attention of the Prime Minister, Taro Katsura, and became his mistress. Throughout the Russo-Japanese War of 1904-05. O-Koi had a place in Katsura's inmost councils without betraying a single confidence...
...other." Besides, it is doubtful whether even a Sicilian-run police force could soon overcome the centuries-old code of omertá, which makes informing-even against a rival gang-the greatest sin. Commenting on last week's murders, one Palermi-ano said with undisguised pride: "The black-clad widows don't speak; nor the children who nourish in their breasts their first thoughts of hatred and vengeance. That is the way of Sicilian blood...
...Lund), a stuffy fellow; and brash Reporter Mike Connor (Frank Sinatra), who is on hand to cover the wedding for a picture magazine. The romantic field is soon winnowed down to Millionaire Crosby and Reporter Sinatra. Grace gets tight and thaws visibly. She dives into a swimming pool fully clad, and is fished out by the reporter (in the original version, they went swimming nude together), an episode which somehow persuades her that her ex-husband Crosby is O.K., or "yare." after...
...Mexico City, workmen recently planted 10,000 lampposts along the street network of a big new housing development. One of Latin America's biggest medical centers is rising on 33 acres of downtown land-and it is only one of 6,000 new buildings, many of them spectacularly clad in plate glass or bright-colored masonry, that are going up yearly in the capital...