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...Broadway show with the longest run has the smallest cast. The cast of Comedy in Music consists of Danish-born Pianist-Funnyman Victor Borge. Last week Borge began his third year on Broadway, having long since broken all records for a one-man show in New York.* To celebrate his 731st performance, he threw a champagne party for the entire audience. At the intermission 120 magnums of French champagne and 50 trays of canapés appeared, along with 24 waiters from the Waldorf. With a bittersweet smile, Borge said, "This is the happiest and costliest evening of my life...
Butler's bronze Machine, I found that the construction and lines are very much like the old Danish idol sculpture Solvognen (Sun Wagon), dated...
...British Sculptor Butler's kinship with a Danish Bronze Age craftsman, see cuts...
...been more crowded. At the Louvre, tourists lined up in long, patient queues to stare at the Victory of Samothrace and the Mona Lisa. Around the Place de la Concorde, traffic whirled wildly as ever, but the license plates on the cars were predominantly Swiss, Italian, German, British, Danish, Dutch and U.S. The chattering voices in the cafes were British, American, Belgian, German-but not French. The locals had left the city to the invaders. In August, France is "en vacances." The Lemmings. In France in August, whole industries (automobiles, steel) shut down, whole streets are shuttered, in a migration...
Success Without Ice. The Danes, who rarely venture far from Copenhagen, have a distinct style of their own. Its originator was the great Danish choreographer, August Bournonville (1805-1879), and a dash of Bournonville was what the balletasters came to Jacob's Pillow for. In two pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed...