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...Democrats' choicest doll is Lucille Clement, wife of Tennessee's give-'em-hellfire Governor Frank G. Clement, the convention's bombastic keynoter. Mother of three boys, Lucille, 36, whose figure is one of modern polities' most attractive gerrymanders, took time out to model some cute creations for a Hearst lensman...
Frederic Warriner's touching and gentle Androcles stays always above the merely coy and cute and manges to avoid any hint of the sentimental excess into which the character might fall in less capable hands. The Ferrovius of Robert Evans is wonderfully full and strong, yet fully cognizant of the weakness forced upon him by an overactive conscience. The Christian Lavinia, blown first this way and then that by her emotions, is given stature and grace by Laurinda Barrett, in a performance notable for the clarity of its projection of constantly shifting moods and attitudes. Of the others, Louis Edmonds...
...enchantingly danced by Yuriko and Marion Jim. The King and I moves along satisfactorily from spectacle to spectacle until the conclusion, when its message (democracy is good; slavery is bad) gets a truly pedestrian delivery at Yul Brynner's deathbed. But the jokes are pleasant, the children cute, and the songs, though familiar, have the springtime bounciness that mark Rodgers and Hammerstein's work...
...groups of dances, four were traditional, the best being Glazounov's "Raymonda" with the Balanchine choreography. But it seems to me that a contemporary arts festival program should be at least half made up of modern works. The Jean Francaix number was cute and innocuous; but the Festival committee ought to have vetoed "The Duel," in which William Dollar's gifted choreography was wasted on incredibly cheap music by Raffaello de Banfield. I would like to have seen one good modern American work, perhaps a new ballet from a New England composer...
...original) from one to another until it gets back where it started from-is mostly not much better than the brothel sequence in any other Technicolor musical. The third offering is a parody of Scheherazade, in which Kelly, as a Sinbad in a sailor suit, does an ever-so-cute little dance with some animated cartoon figures...