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Some other critical verdicts were harder to follow. Reported New York Times Dance Critic John Martin, after watching a Ballet Theatre performer in a pas de deux from The Nutcracker: "Mr. Bruhn has nice elevation but a weak batterie, and indulges in a good deal of unnecessary ictus...
...Bartok: Deux Images for Orchestra (New Symphony Orchestra, Tibor Serly conducting; Bartok Records, 2 sides LP). Early Bartok, with a touch of Debussy and a full share of Bartok's own masterful orchestral technique. Performance and recording: excellent...
Josephine Baker (Columbia; 2 sides LP). A cross section of the French songs that made the daughter of a St. Louis washerwoman the toast of Paris, including J'ai Deux Amours, C'est Lui, La, Petite Tonkinoise...
President and Mme. Vincent Auriol cast their ballots in downtown Paris amid the pop of photographers' flashbulbs, then hustled off to the Auteuil horse races. Grey-suited De Gaulle, as dour as usual, voted in a schoolhouse in his home village of Colombey-les-deux-Eglises. Premier Henri Queuille, symbol of the Third Force, voted before TV and newsreel cameras in his constituency in central France, then flew back to Paris to watch the count...
...vigorous young New York City Ballet Company, balletomanes could smile at that one. Combining gusto with flawless technique, Maria's performance in Firebird already ranks as one of the finest in present-day ballet; her other specialties, e.g., the Balanchine-Bizet Symphony in C, her Pas de Deux from Sylvia, and Divertimento, are danced with the style and confidence of a great prima ballerina. And, at 25, she has a lot of ballet ahead...