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...Sadler's Wells Ballet did not contain much true ballet. "The Rake's Progress" is more a mimeo-drama than a ballet; and "Dante Sonata" contains a great many elements of modern interpretive dancing. The remaining two selections were the lightweight "Les Patineurs," and the brief pas de deux from Act III of "Sleeping Beauty," which was hardly more than a glimpse...
...brief Act III pas de deux from "Sleeping Beauty," the true meaning of Sadler's Wells' fame crystalized. The undisputed pinnacle of the evening was Moira Shearer. In this, the only pure classical part of the program, her magnificent body control, intense yet delicate, was completely over-whelming...
...view of the brevity of the pas de deux, however, Ashton's "Dante Sonata," to music by Franz Liszt, was the most important attraction of the evening. A great deal has been read into this ballet that was never intended by the choreographer, but Ashton's instinct toward the abstract rather than narrative form often makes such interpretation possible...
...Boulevard St. Germain met, drank three Martinis, and awarded the international prize of the French Book Club to Robert Penn Warren for the French translation of All the King's Men. The same group of men then got up, walked across the street to the Café des Deux Magots, and awarded the Prix des Deux Magots, sponsored by the owners of the café, to Jean Masares for his Comme le pélican du-désert. Over on the Right Bank that same afternoon the editors of the newspaper Parisien Libéré were awarding...
Since the Fourth Republic was launched in December 1946, Charles de Gaulle has loitered not too patiently in the wings, waiting for his chance to make a grand entrance on the French political scene. In recent months he has lived quietly at his home in Colombey-les-deux-Eglises, leaving occasionally for speeches or visits to his headquarters in Paris, entertaining party strategists and army men. But when Georges Bidault of the M.R.P. (Popular Republicans) became Premier last month, rumors proliferated about a possible deal between Bidault and De Gaulle...