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...splendour of her breasts," wrote an early biographer, "made madmen everywhere." He might also have mentioned her energy, ambition, courage, cunning, charm, wit and wardrobe. It took all those things, and plenty of gall besides, to turn Eliza Gilbert into Lola Montez, famous dancer, mistress of Franz Liszt and Alexandre Dumas père, intimate of kings and prime ministers, de facto ruler of Bavaria during Ludwig I's declining years, and belle of the California gold rush...
...Ireland with a lieutenant named Thomas James, who soon ran off with a captain's wife. Eliza changed her name to Lola Montez, and under the protection of two great and good friends, Lord Malmesbury and Lord Brougham, made her stage debut in London as a Spanish dancer. The show closed, but a star was born...
...Frank Hatch, an American dancer now studying capoeira in Salvador, the growth of the folk art is only natural. "Brazilians are very proud of their mental quickness," he says. "They like to live by their wits; capoeira is not a sport of brute force but rather of outwitting the other fellow." Agrees Bimba: "Capoeira is something truly Brazilian-it's our own blend...
...putting these plays on stage, one of the most important challenges to be met is providing a sense of internal unity and discipline among the actors, dancer, and musicians who combine in abstract and occasionally mystical scenes. These demands on the performers were of primary importance to Yeats, who intended to impress his audiences with the significance of mythical symbols through purely visual experience. That sense of unity was not nearly strong enough when the production opened in Leverett House last weekend. With a cast better-practiced by a week, the real problem raised by this trilogy may seem...
Among the best-known candidates will be Film Actor Gian Maria Volonte, star of Investigation of a Citizen Above Suspicion, and Concetto Lo Bello. Italy's most famous soccer referee. For militant leftists, there is Anarchist Pietro Valpreda, 39, a professional dancer by trade, who is charged with having killed 16 people and wounded 90 by planting a bomb two years ago in Milan's Agricultural Bank. Militant rightists can turn to Pino Rauti, 46, a neo-Fascist newsman who is accused of exploding 24 bombs at various places in 1969, including eight aboard trains on the Milan...