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...White America, pain is self-contained; in The Trojan Women, grief screams like a woman in childbirth. This Edith Hamilton translation of the Euripides classic has been directed by Michael Cacoyannis with brooding eloquence, cyclonic passion, and such cruel inner hurt that the stoniest playgoer must seek relief in tears. Pain paints the backdrop like a sky of blood. Pain drums the floor boards in the rhythmic open-palmed agony of the bowed women who must become the slaves and bedmates of the conquering Greeks. Pain frantically grips a little boy between his mother's legs before...
Governor Lehman is survived by his wife, the former Edith Altschul, and two children, John R. and Hilda Paul...
PIAF AND SARAPO AT THE BOBINO (Capitol) presents the late Edith Piaf in the enthusiastic but otherwise drear company of her young (25) Greek husband, Theo...
...gates. Pushing, shoving, screaming, trampling other graves, they surprised the outnumbered police, who helplessly shrilled on their whistles trying to maintain order. Women fainted, and were laid out on tombs. (One was carted off to a hospital in the funeral hearse.) And amidst the tumult, the body of Edith Piaf, along with her cherished good luck charms, a stuffed rabbit, squirrel and lion, was lowered into its grave. It was 6 p.m. before the last of the mourners departed, leaving behind on her grave notes, poems, pictures of her favorite saint (Theresa), a sailor's beret and a French...
Died. Jean Cocteau, 74, France's Jack-of-all-arts; of a heart attack, on hearing of Edith Piaf s death; in Milly-la-Forêt, France (see THE WORLD...