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Taking time out from preparing his next thriller, Director Alfred Hitchcock, 74, attended a gala in his honor given by the Film Society of Lincoln Center in Manhattan. Accompanied by his wife of 48 years, Alma Reville, who was one of his first scriptwriters, the master sat in a box while 2,800 admirers, who had paid up to $250 each, enjoyed three hours of celluloid suspense. Clips from many of Hitchcock's 56 movies were interspersed with personal appearances by French Director François Truffaut, Joan Fontaine (Rebecca), Janet Leigh (Psycho). Cyril Ritchard (Blackmail) and Monaco...
...dressed. The diners sit down, admire the pleasing surroundings, and then comes the piéce de résistance: a greasy hamburger, accompanied by limp French fries and a fizzy concoction dosed with cyclamates. That, roughly, was what it was like at an eagerly anticipated dance event: the gala opening last week of the revitalized Harkness Ballet at the palatial new Harkness Theater near Manhattan's Lincoln Center...
...Next month she is presenting on Broadway what she describes as her most ambitious season ever, a three-week repertory that will include six major Graham revivals plus six performances of Clytemnestra and a reworking of last season's Mendicants of the Evening. Graham will star in the gala opening-as a commentator, not a dancer...
...suspense-and the hype-is nearly at an end. Gatsby will finally have its premiere in New York March 27 with the last big burst of ballyhoo: an old-fashioned gala replete with truckloads of white roses, pounds of caviar and enough breast of pheasant to endanger the species. After that, audiences across the country will get the chance to make the kind of choice only they can make: to go to the movies and see Gatsby or stay home and read the book...
What's wrong with the Declaration of Independence? Steve Luxenberg (Crimson, 2/15/74) may find philosophy "irrevelant," ideals frivolous, and the American Revolution not worth remembering except with a "gala birthday party." What's left for the rest of us? Luxenberg is opaque on this question. On the one hand, we are damned from the start; we "care about money and job security" and nothing else...