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...composers have benefited more from the current ragtime revival than those legendary figures Scott Joplin and Eubie Blake. Joplin, who died in 1917, has been championed largely by such "legitimate" pianists as Joshua Rifkin and William Bolcom, as well as Dancer-Stage Director Katherine Dunham, who mounted Joplin's opera Treemonisha in Atlanta last February. Blake's champion? Why, Eubie himself...
...dancer, you had tassles on your tits...
...much time for heaven just now. It is late fall in Vermont, and the first wet snows have already fallen on the 500-acre campus of Bennington College. Coeds in fringed wool ponchos and muddy boots straggle along the paths to their classes. In Commons Theater, a lone dancer in a leotard is rehearsing her interpretation of Wallace Stevens' poem Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird. In Studio 236 of a stone mansion called Jennings Hall, a violinist tirelessly polishes the opening of a Mozart quartet. Among them all walks Gail Parker, a handsome brunette...
Died. Don Loper, 66, designer of celebrity wardrobes; in Santa Monica, Calif. Loper went to Hollywood in the early '40s to co-produce and dance in the Ginger Rogers movie Lady in the Dark. At MGM he enjoyed a seven-way contract that made him dancer, choreographer, costume designer, set designer, producer, director and actor. He later opened a Sunset Strip couture house from which he clothed some of Hollywood's most famous women-including Marlene Dietrich, Lana Turner, Claudette Colbert-for prices up to $25,000 a dress...
...National Bank of Labor, injuring 14 persons. That same afternoon, two bombs blew pieces of marble off Rome's Victor Emmanuel monument; three pedestrians were hurt. Police in the two cities promptly went into action. Three days later in Milan, they arrested Pietro Valpreda, 37, a sometime ballet dancer and member of an anarchist group called "March 22" (after the 1968 rebellion of French students at Nanterre University); seven people affiliated with the organization were also picked up in Rome. Valpreda and two other March 22 members were subsequently charged with strage (massacre) in the Milan bombing, a crime...