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World premiere of Igor Stravinsky's dance drama Noah and the Flood, choreographed by George Balanchine, starring Laurence Harvey, Sebastian Cabot, Elsa Lanchester and the New York City Ballet...
...John Wayne's forthcoming African epic, Hatari, Heroine Elsa Martinelli leads three baby elephants, trunk to tail, to a jungle water hole, then back up a hill to a camp. It is a nice scene, but hardly vital to the film. What makes it indispensable is Mancini's music - a calliope, then a bass clarinet noodling a theme suggested by the old boogie-woogie tune, Down the Road a Piece. For the current Experiment in Terror, Mancini uses an autoharp; each appearance of the villain is marked by its dissonant and eerie chords...
...gussied up in a blonde wig, an imitation tigerskin cape and a patterned gown that made the New York Botanical Garden seem like the Mojave Desert, Elsa Maxwell, 78, put on the biggest fountain scene since Zelda Fitzgerald wowed them in the '20s with her midnight dips in the pool outside Manhattan's Hotel Plaza. Planted before a fountain set up in the Plaza's ballroom for the Renaissance Ball, a society smash for the benefit of Italian orphans and students, Party-Giver Maxwell did an improbable impersonation of Anita Ekberg's sexy splashings...
...Darling fat girl, anyone who has given so many people such pleasure and fun is doomed to go on doing it." Thus encouraged by Fellow Worldling Noel Coward, Café Society Mixmaster Elsa Maxwell, 78, rose from the Manhattan bed to which a heart attack confined her three months ago and began once again to share her doom with the readers of her syndicated, confidences. Though her ordeal had modified her physique-on doctor's orders she had already reduced from 200 to 165 lbs.-it had not mitigated her relentlessly chatty columnar style. Opening gambit in her first...
Since Eva and Walther are not figures so mystical as Elsa and Lohenrin, they require both in melody and acting a flair that Jutta Meyfurth and Marion Alch possessed. Miss Meyfurth sang Eva with a strength of passion less suited to the part than simple delicacy; still, she handled her forcefulness well. Alch had a proper impetuousness and mastered the demanding range of this part, but the song with which he won Eva was marred by swallowed vowels and consonants. The directors must assume much of the blame, for they cut the second stanza of this crucial song...