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...music, ar ranged and conducted by John Lanch-berry, sounds like a serious ensemble rather than the pickup assortment that often accompanies dance. The Australians are a very handsome company. The girls are among the prettiest dancers around; the men are tall and athletic. John Meehan, who plays Count Danilo, the rich widow's reluctant lover, is positively coltish. He carries off the evening with blithe bravado, swinging Dame Margot around in reckless waltzes or flinging her high with one-arm lifts. Meehan will never be the partner Help mann was, but he embodies the insouciance that...
Shooting Days. Whatever his misgivings, the director has lavished on Casanova extravagant care even by his own high standards. At a cost of $10 million, Fellini has given full vent to his surreal, picaresque vision of Casanova; he has used 500 extras, commissioned 54 sets by volatile, brilliant Designer Danilo Donati, as well as 3,000 costumes and 400 wigs. Nearly 150 shooting days have been spent on the sound stages and back lots of Rome's Cinecitta studio...
...midst of all this verbiage comes a strikingly down-to-earth quotation from Italian author Danilo Dolci: It's important to understand that words don't move mountains. Work, exacting work moves mountains." Words and Their Masters isn't likely to budge the Himalayas, but it does provide some insight into the major literary minds of the day. Besides, it doesn't take itself too seriously, and it's a pleasure to read. Shenker has proved himself a minor master of words in his own right...
...high time that the White House guards were given a fitting ceremonial uniform. The usual U.S. police uniform is exactly the same as that of a night watchman. All hail Graustark, Ruritania and Danilo-the Hart, Schaffner & Marx of the Nixon Administration...
...hand to greet him were a squad of White House guards caparisoned in Graustarkian dress uniforms festooned with gold braid and nipped at the waist with black leather gunbelts. The black vinyl hats trimmed in gold suggested, by turns, a Ruritanian palace guard, a Belgian customs inspector, and Prince Danilo in The Merry Widow...