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Will Japan ever wholly succumb to Western ballet and give up its traditional dancing? Not likely, thinks another recent visitor, Ballerina Alexandra Danilova. "Our dance is like flower, open out this way," she says, assisting her Russian accent by opening out her fists. Then, closing them again, she added: "Japanese dance is like flower, closing up this...
Died. Mistinguett, nee Jeanne Bourgeois, 82, French musicomedienne; in Bougival, a suburb of Paris. With her foghorn voice, perky Parisian personality and famed legs ("les plus belles jambes de France," allegedly insured for $3 million), "Mees" rose from flower girl to become the most luminous star of the French music hall of her time. The peak of her long career came early in the century when she played at the Folies-Bergère, the Casino de Paris, the Moulin Rouge, made famous the song Mon Homme, and made an international hit of the apache dance, which she did with...
...schools, hospitals and other public buildings, $75 million for roads and bridges. Its new $30 million refinery provides Iraq with gasoline at 15? a gallon (though heavy taxes lift it up to 29? a gallon). Ancient, reeking Baghdad (pop. 550,000), which bears almost no resemblance to the flower-decked Arabian Nights pleasure dome that the Caliph Harun al-Rashid (786-809) shared so opulently with 2,000,000 subjects, is getting low-cost housing, a sewage system, some badly needed modern streets, and the promise of room to expand now that the Tigris can be curbed...
...Disneyland (Wed. 7:30 p.m., ABC). When Knighthood Was in Flower, with Richard Todd, Glynis Johns...
...Paris, was usually a silent onlooker. He was content to drink in the new, exciting talk of pure, shadowless colors like a peasant swigging new May wine, then rush off to the Montmartre rooms that he shared with his brother to try out the new theories in dazzling flower paintings...