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...emphasis was inevitably on swirling group movements and splashy stage effects: clouds of smoke pouring over the footlights into the orchestra pit, Titania coming onstage with a magnificent retinue. There were also some deft characterizations and some fine bits of choreography: a fluent, elegant pas de deux between Conrad Ludlow and Violette Verdy, an elastically lyric solo by Edward Villella as Oberon, a wonderfully comic and closely knit dialogue of movement between Melissa Hayden as the Queen of the Fairies and Roland Vazquez as Bottom, wearing a donkey's head...
Sunday in New York, by Norman Krasna. has as its heroine an unhip news-chick who is 22 and given to wondering out loud whether she should give up her virginity. The chick (Pat Stanley) is assured by her air pilot brother (Conrad Janis) that nice girls shouldn't. Her millionaire boy friend walks out on her, contending that she should. Riding a Manhattan Fifth Avenue bus and nursing the blues, she hooks another eligible male (Robert Redford) - hooks him literally, with a barbed dress catch that rips out his breast pocket. They share a snack and a movie...
...title page of his first collection of short stories in twelve years, John O'Hara has set a remark of Joseph Conrad's that is far more apt than most epigraphs: "My task ... is, by the power of the written word, to make you feel-it is, before all, to make you see. That-and no more. And it is everything." At least it is everything that O'Hara does well (if, for this master of the ear, it is understood that feeling includes hearing). The peculiar limitation of the author's great skill is that...
...that pressagents now usually confirm every telephone tip with a typed copy sent to her Beverly Hills home. She once exhumed an author dead a decade to report that he was busily retooling a book of his as a film vehicle for Dolores del Rio. After she reported that Conrad Nagel was handholding at the Derby with Frances Somebody-or-Other, she hardly seemed fazed to discover that Frances was really Francis-and that there had been no handholding. But her friends stand by her: when she prematurely published the claim that a certain actress was pregnant, the actress...
Apparently having nothing new to say about bullfighting, Barnaby Conrad, the ex-matador (now a 39-year-old man of letters), has collected the dying speeches, curses and quips of the great. As books of this kind frequently do, the volume has a preface by Clifton Fadiman, containing his own favorite examples of words uttered while the toes turned cold (and thought up, one suspects in some cases, well ahead of time). Samples...