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...opens with a first chapter that is largely about TIME. This rather unlikely combination occurs in GI Nun (P. J. Kenedy & Sons; $4.50), the story of Sister Mary Xavier Coens, B.V.M., and a troupe of girls she took to Europe for the U.S.O. in the summer of 1964 to entertain U.S. servicemen...
...Next day she invited Don to entertain a swinging party of 35 at her rented home in Kahala. So swinging, Ho says, that he pitched the Capri-pants-clad hostess into her own swimming pool...
...most admired Lady Macbeth, tried all three and unwisely settled on the last. Miss Nye says, "We [pause] fail! [longer pause]/But screw your courage to the sticking-place,/And we'll not fail." Lady Macbeth is a better psychologist than this. She would not let her husband entertain the idea of failure in the first place; and she certainly would not let such an idea sink in by observing a lengthy silence afterward. She must put absolute incredulity into that pair of words and go right on to the next line--the word "but" being used in its meaning...
Buried somewhere in Africa is a valid idea. Far-sighted ranchers are indeed beginning to breed wildlife as a partial answer to the world's dwindling food supply. Tors, a director of the World Wildlife Fund, obviously hoped to make a film that would entertain as well as in struct. This one does neither. Africa-Texas Style! has not enough of the real Africa, less of Texas, and no style at all. It patronizes the natives, shows the beasts in badly edited shots that unconvincingly mix footage of wild lions and tame humans. Tors has even included the ancient...
...DIEGO SHAKESPEARE FESTIVAL, in its 18th year, will present Twelfth Night, All's Well That Ends Well and Othello, from a replica of the 16th century Globe Theater, until Sept. 10. Musicians, tumblers, dancers and madrigal singers entertain before each performance...