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...Dudley Commuters have a arty and dance at the Commuters Center.ANNE MILLS '54 (left) and THOMAS G. VICKERY '53 fight a duel in the final not of the House play at Adams last night. The production was "The Lying Valet," David Garrick's Restoration farce. The other play, "On the House," was given at Dunster. "It contained a series of four sketches based on plays of Thornton Wilder, Norton Professor of Poetry, and arranged with his cooperation...
Ring Round the Moon (translated from the French of Jean Anouilh by Christopher Fry; produced by Gilbert Miller) is as French as a duel in the Bois, and as airy and evanescent as skywriting. A "charade with music," it assembles a fashionable group for a ball at a chateau where not only the guests, but their words, their wit, their desires, their very frustrations are expected to dance. With its adroit Christopher Fry translation, evocative Poulenc music, elegant Dufy curtain scrawls, charming 1912 Castillo costumes, Ring Round the Moon comes in the most inviting of envelopes-which proves a little...
Recent cabinet meetings on the Indo-China crisis have been one long duel between Minister for the Associated States Jean Letourneau and Defense Minister Jules Moch. Letourneau is responsible for Indo-China, but he has lacked power to prosecute the war. Privately he is reported to have complained: "Whenever I need a uniform button I have to apply to Jules Moch for it. Whenever I need an additional franc I have to beg [Finance Minister] Maurice Petsche...
...Happiest Days of Your Life. A hilarious scene-stealing duel between Britain's Alastair Sim and Margaret Rutherford (TIME...
Another arresting sight: a primitive duel, staged for the story's climax, between contenders for the rule of the seven-foot-tall Watusi of Ruanda-Urundi, a remarkably aristocratic tribe with features that seem to come straight from the ancient Pharaohs. The Watusi's longtime slaves, the Buhutus, also help Africa steal the show from Hollywood. Before the duel is fought, they throw themselves into a long, exotically graceful dance that far outstrips any choreography ever put into one of MGM's musicals. For moviegoers who don't have much hope of making a visit...