Word: grottos
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...home of a nobleman of Handel's period, with the opera itself presented as an entertainment for the guests. The opulent, columned and chandeliered set had a revolving dais at stage center on which the masque's labyrinthine plot could easily glide from court to forest to grotto...
...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...
...Started in Naples (Shavelson-Rose; Paramount) ends, at least as far as its interest for adults is concerned, when Clark Gable and Sophia Loren engage in a water ballet pas de deux in the Blue Grotto. But this foolishness does not occur until fairly late in the film, and what precedes it is noisy, cheerful and frequently funny. A good part of the reason is a nine-year-old rowdy named Marietto, who plays an Italian urchin and clowns well enough to deserve two names...
...Montreux (Aug. 31-Sept. 25). Hampered by the lack of a first-class concert hall (a visiting violinist once bitterly referred to the "grotto acoustics" of the lakeside pavilion), the festival directors nevertheless present excellent large-scale concerts by the Orchestre National de Paris and the Symphony of the Nordwestdeutsche Rundfunk. Among the participants: Conductors Eugen Jochum, Ernest Ansermet and Andre Cluytens, Virtuosos Nathan Milstein, Artur Rubinstein, Pierre Fournier, Zino Francescatti...
...missionaries at work from the frozen Arctic to the steaming Amazon jungle. Twelve photographers took part in the project, all of them professional save one : Father William Leising, an Oblate priest who pilots supplies to 26 mission posts in the Canadian northland, and who took the picture of the grotto 200 miles above the Arctic Circle...