Word: jeanes
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...Jean Babilée is a dancer U.S. balletomanes have been hearing about, in brief flashes from Paris, since the end of the war. The first flash was that he could leap as no one since Nijinsky. Then came a tale of an astonishing physical feat: in Jean Cocteau's Le Jeune Homme et la Mort (TIME, Dec. 9, 1946), Babilée hung by his neck on a gallows for a full minute, with no more extra support than he could get from wrapping one arm around a pillar...
...Paris physician, Jean has been dancing almost half his life; too high-strung and restless for school, at 13 he was a "little rat" in the Paris Opera Ballet. He left the ballet to fight with the Maquis during the war. At war's end he joined the small Soirées de la Danse, later the Ballet des Champs Elysées. He designed his first ballet for Nathalie-a duet to Beethoven's "Pathetique" piano sonata-and they were married shortly after. He "detests" classical duets-"too rigid, too formal. I always hate my partner...
...their first trip to the U.S., the Babilées have been busy taking in Broadway musicomedies ("So strong, such a sense of theater!"). The irrepressible Jean is also shopping for a cowboy suit, complete with six-shooter-perhaps to wear while roaring around on one of the two motorcycles he keeps in Paris...
...Paris in the uneasy spring of 1936. Sitdowns close the factories, riots clog the streets, a Popular Front cabinet maneuvers for its life. To a Jules Remains or a Jean Paul Sartre this is the ideal setting for a lugubrious social novel. But not to Marcel Aymé. As a satirist by profession -and currently the best in France-Aymé gives 1936 France his usual deft, dry treatment...
Rachel Mellinger '52 has been elected editor of the 1952 Radcliffe Yearbook, it was announced yesterday. Other editors are Mary Blakeslee '53, Ellen Field '53, Julianne Jansen '52, Shirley Laird '53, Elizabeth McKinster '52, Helen Repp '54, Jean Ross '54, and Nancy Westover...