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...Russian, bolshoi means big. As applied to the Bolshoi Ballet, it means grandiose. Finishing up its final run in Manhattan before pushing off on a two-month cross-country junket, the Bolshoi last week clearly demonstrated that it possesses more depth and breadth in dancing talent than any other major ballet company. The latest evidence of this was the appearance of a pair of 24-year-old newcomers who seem surely destined to become the new superstars of ballet...
...responsive audience awaited the successful lecture career on which he immediately embarked; in 1867 he sailed off triumphantly on another journalistic junket to the Mediterranean and Palestine, where he mined the material for his first important book, Innocents Abroad. Twain's Hawaiian letters have previously been issued only in limited editions. Now Professor A. Grove Day of the University of Hawaii has prepared the first edition of the Letters for broader publication. The book offers nothing that is not already known about Hawaii, but it provides a fresh, funny portrait of Mark Twain as a young...
Made In Paris casts Ann-Margret as a pushy little pure girl exploring what she calls her "first big chance" abroad. Playing a dress buyer on a junket, Ann-Margret adapts to comedy by snickering through her lines, but her candy-box wardrobe gets most of the laughs. Sympathetic Dress Designer Louis Jourdan says: "Wild Paris sex is one big cliche. You can have it if you want it-there are specialists who cater to such tastes." Ann-Margret finally settles for the tame American sex offered by Chad Everett, who has Paul Newman's looks, Clark Gable...
...Mayor Wagner (recuperating). Last week the chic league was further congested by Italian Designer Emilio Pucci, who arrived bringing the season's first rainstorm and leading a glossy swirl of journalists and society's beautiful people-Mary Cushing, Caterine Milinaire, Aurora Hitchcock-on a swinging junket to celebrate his new perfume, Vivara. All of this, on top of a regular tourist season that will probably see 1,560,000 visitors stream in and out of a resort town of 100,000, has Acapulco full to bursting, with hotels now booked through March...
Following a misunderstanding about the hours Rod spends with his secretary, Doris flies off to Paris with an antique dealer (Sergio Fantoni). It is only a shopping junket, but Doris gets drunk, gets reckless, finally gets trapped for the night in a tiny shop where the dealer tries to arouse her interest in a highly compromising old bed. Eventually, she recaptures wedded bliss, but not until she lands by mistake in another wrong bed. In fact, she is the incarnation of a loud, bumptious, overdressed lady tourist on the town. Which raises another question: If Doris Day becomes America...