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...Savang Vatthana seemed to have sunk into a torpor that could not be shaken by the fast-paced world around him. One Western diplomat, after a session with the King, said it was "like listening to a long Oriental movie dubbed in French." He is a fan of Margot Fonteyn and Italian opera, and at one recent soiree, after a performance of native dances, he gathered his French and diplomat guests in stuffed armchairs in a corner and attempted to start the conversation with a topical question. "Tell me," he asked: "What does the youth of today think of Anatole...
...title role, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn offered one of the finest characterizations of her career. From the moment she stepped out from behind a grotto, her body elfin, her face sharply kittenish, until she tremulously bestowed the kiss of death on her faithless lover Palemon (ably danced by Michael Somes), her movements had the kind of effortless grace that commanded immediate conviction. At one point, hovering in her lover's arms, she reached down to stroke his hair in a gesture that caught the whole measure of the heroine's innocence and fear. Ondine's weakness...
...Crossroads. In its first Manhattan week, the Royal Ballet proved again that in such romantic ballets as Sleeping Beauty and Swan Lake it is matchless in the West. At 41, jewel-like Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn is one year beyond the age at which it was once rumored she would retire. But she exhilarated audiences with her fluid, exquisite enchaine-ment and her seemingly gravity-free grace, though purists insisted they detected a slight falling-off from the sureness of her performance in New York three years ago. Later in the week the troupe unpacked La Fille Mai Gard...
...Royal is evidently nearing a crossroads, with Fonteyn listed only as a "guest artist" (she has been away for much of the past year) and the company relying more and more on its mainstay classical ballets. There is no shortage of younger dancers, among them Nadia Nerina-whose performance in La Fille Mai Gardée conveyed glimpses of Ulanova's unearthly lightness-Annette Page, Anya Linden and, most notably, coldly brilliant Svetlana Beriosova, 28, widely heralded as heiress apparent to Fonteyn. The Royal last week also showed off its first-rate male principals: Michael Somes, Brian Shaw, Alexander...
Perry Como's Kraft Music Hall (NBC, 9-10 p.m.).* This one was taped in London. Guest stars include: Sir Ralph Richardson, Dame Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes...