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Gershwin was never entirely comfortable in the high-toned world of "serious" art. But Robbins is; his sense of structure-of how to hold a multimovement piece together-is stronger and surer. Against an art deco backdrop with a huge "G," Robbins enshrines the soul of Gershwin's piano in four crisply moving soloists, led by the technically dazzling, ebullient Darci Kistler. He impersonates the orchestra with a corps of 24 dancers-a dozen of each sex-and follows the episodes of the music as if he were charting a graph. Yet, where Gershwin's music ultimately degenerates...
...rent a hall to preview his movie. But the guy was Francis Coppola, 42, director of the Godfather films and Apocalypse Now; and the hall was the 6,000-seat art deco monument in Rockefeller Center; and the movie was a $26 million love story whose ballooning budget carried Coppola's Zoetrope Studios further on its drift toward disaster; and in violation of all movieland protocol, the preview was arranged without notifying the film's distributor. And so, with one full-page ad placed in last Sunday's New York Times, Coppola turned One From the Heart...
...stopped just this side of camp. The characters, however rueful or ruthless, were also insatiably idealistic. They actually believed the words of the period's popular songs-so much so that they lip-synced the lyrics to the recordings, and their sad, drab lives dissolved into the art deco optimism of Hollywood musicals...
Partners has participated in similar energizing efforts elsewhere. In Cincinnati, the art-deco train terminal, headed for demolition, was turned into an elegant shopping center. In midtown St. Louis, Partners is promoting the restoration of two historic theaters for performing arts' use. This week in Richmond, local design students, prodded by Partners, will sketch ideas for improving the dowdy riverfront in hopes of stirring up local interest in salvaging the area...
Esther Halperin, 77, who wears the kind of art deco glasses that curl at the sides, spent her honeymoon in Atlantic City in 1925, at a kosher hotel on Virginia Avenue. She had two older sisters, and her parents refused to let her marry before they did, so she was forced to elope. "We only had 2½ days," she recalls. "We were married on a Tuesday, and I had to be back Friday night to light the candles. My in-laws were very religious." Her husband, who became a manufacturer of burlap bags, died two years ago. "He loved...