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Enterprising assembly salesmen looked elsewhere to ferret out an audience and the show went on, but it was not exactly the gala the polls had predicted...
...Harvard a bit of the old sparkle and a splash of the spot light this year. Using the glamorous Institute of Politics (IOP) Forum, a three-story atrium smack in the middle of the K-School structure, as his stage, Nicholas Mitropoulos, assistant director of the IOP, orchestrated a gala revue of presidential candidates, prominent journalists, and other luminaries. After 105 presentations and an attendance record which would put some major league baseball teams to shame, Mitropoulos can lean back and reflect, "I think we were pretty successful, but don't believe that we're giving up on getting Carter...
There was a more traditional celebration across Lincoln Center, at the Metropolitan Opera House, where the American Ballet Theater put on a 40th anniversary gala evening. A.B.T. does this sort of thing every five years or so for fun and fund raising, but this gathering had special meaning: it marked the 35th year that Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith have directed the troupe; in September Mikhail Baryshnikov will replace them...
...reaped a huge hit in Twyla Tharp's Push Comes to Shove. Chase has nurtured Americans like Cynthia Gregory and welcomed the Soviet comets, Nureyev, Makarova, Baryshnikov. The newest arrival, Alexander Godunov, hurled himself through the rousing pas de deux from Le Corsaire as a highlight of the gala...
Said she: "The 40th anniversary gala was genuinely one of the most joyous occasions this family has ever known. There was history, there was fun, there was sentiment, there was love. I never thought in 1945 that Oliver Smith and I would be directors more than temporarily. But that was 35 years ago. Those 35 years have brought me a kind of professional enjoyment that no sad moment, no difficult time, has clouded. It hasn't always been easy, but the company has grown and developed, and what more can any family...