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Imagine Ionesco's Rhinoceros cut, cramped, revved up and staged on a go-go dancer's platform in a roadhouse discothèque. That gives a hint of the kind of upbeat, frantic vulgarization done here by Julian Barry and Tom O'Horgan in another of eight filmed plays mounted by the American Film Theater. O'Horgan and Barry collaborated on Lenny, the Broadway biography of Lenny Bruce, and this film contains the same sort of trendy stunts, the same kind of empty, aggressive energy...
Then in 1967 the Academy appointed a 37-year-old former dancer and fund raiser named Harvey Lichtenstein as its new executive director. Lichtenstein turned out to be one of the best things to happen to Brooklyn since the Dodgers won the World Series. Armed with a $300,000 Ford Foundation grant to stimulate modern dance, Lichtenstein concentrated in his first three years on lining up topflight contemporary dance groups who could not afford Manhattan production prices. He organized regular appearances by more than a dozen companies, including the American Ballet Theater, the Merce Cunningham Dance Company, Martha Graham, Alwin...
...Sounding like a rejected suitor, Graham Company Veteran Bertram Ross explained his recent resignation: "Life has always been difficult with Martha. Now, Protas is encouraging her to fantasize she's a young girl and two men are fighting over her favors." Exiting too were another long-time Graham dancer, Mary Hinkson and five "unsympathetic" members of the board who were persuaded by Martha to resign last year. Apparently unfazed, Protas is now planning Martha's first European tour in seven years. Says Attorney Arnold Weissberger, the board's secretary: "The company was in the doldrums before Protas...
Slim (size 10) and brunette, the soft-spoken Mrs. Ford, 55, was raised in Grand Rapids. Before her marriage in 1948, she was a Powers model in New York City and a dancer with the Martha Graham troupe. Her favorite hobby is growing flowers and vegetables. As the nation's Second Lady, she hopes "to do something for the arts...
...rigid, dressed in black, surrounded by performers, he receives little attention. Yet often as not he's playing as much of the lead as Townshend; his progressions on "The Real Me," and his work with Keith Moon on "Drowned" were truly stunning. Roger Daltry is a puppet, a helpless dancer. Programmed to march, twirl mike cords and pose with his hands clasped over his head, he's at a consistent loss for something to do. He may still suffer from an unfamiliarity with his material. In general his range, though not infinite, enables Townshend to escape with his own transitions...