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Esquire again gets the prize for unusual choices. In 1968 the magazine recruited Playwright Jean Genet, Novelist William Burroughs, Satirist Terry Southern and Poet Allen Ginsberg. This time the Esquire group is to include Guenrikh Borovik, 43, former U.S. correspondent for the Soviet news agency Novosti and writer for Izvestia and Pravda. He will team with Jack Chen, 63, a Eurasian who travels on a Trinidad passport and wrote for Peking Review and People's Daily while living in mainland China from 1950 until last year. To round out this summer's roster, Esquire will have the services...
...French novelist, best known for her candid autobiography, La Bâtarde (The Bastard); of cancer; in Faucon, France. The unlovely, illegitimate daughter of a housemaid, Leduc was a black marketeer during World War II; later she was encouraged in a literary career by Jean-Paul Sartre, Jean Genet and Simone de Beauvoir. Leduc's first novels attracted only limited attention; La Bâtarde, with its explicit accounts of her gnawing loneliness and bisexual experimentation, brought her notoriety and financial success...
This is an amusing, thoroughly relaxing evening at Manhattan's McAlpin Rooftop Theater. Special praise should go to the venturesome Chelsea Theater Center, which originated this production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music along with Jean Genet's The Screens, recent winner of the New York Drama Critics' Circle Award for best foreign play of the year...
...good news about the Harvard-Radcliffe Afro-American Dance Theatre, choreographed by Bill Mackey, has already spread. The group has met with an incredible amount of success over the past year, due in large part to Mackey's guidance. Not the least of his achievements was the choreography for Genet's "The Blacks" at the Loeb in 1970. For his evening on May 14 he plans to do ten different works, in a style he calls "dance-drama." He loves working with his dancers in a class situation and has a great support with them, but "if an artist works...
...Maids, by Jean Genet. Hub Centre Theatre. Thurs., 7:30, Fri., Sat., 7:30 and 9:30. Students...