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Best Ippolita, by Alberto Denti di Pirajno. Highly reminiscent of The Leopard, and written, as was that excellent novel, by an aging Sicilian duke, Ippolita draws an evocative portrait of semifeudal Italian society amid the first revolutionary stirrings in the early 19th century. The author depicts princes, peasants, and his skinflint heroine with melodramatic gusto, but his most exact and memorable character is the past itself...
...stardom has not yet been tested at the box office, he has already reached a position from which he can choose his roles. Now working with Eva Marie Saint in Producer John Houseman's All Fall Down (from James Leo Herlihy's novel), he may do The Leopard with Sir Laurence Olivier...
Last year's princely book was The Leopard, written largely in his 60th year by the late Giuseppe di Lampedusa, Duke of Palma. The current entry in the duke-of-the-year club is Ippolita, written by 75-year-old Alberto Denti di Pirajno, Duke of Pirajno. The resemblances between the two novels do not end there. They are both set in the 19th century amid the first revolutionary stirrings of Italian unification. To match The Leopard's feudally lavish autocratic hero, Don Fabrizio, there is the new book's feudally parsimonious autocratic heroine, Ippolita. Both books...
...sleek Mercedes, victorious Dr. Banda drove through cheering crowds to the $28,000 house bought for him by the Malawi Party. There, seated beside a stuffed leopard and beneath a photograph of Kenya's Jomo Kenyatta (see above), Banda announced that whites who will not go along with African rule "will find there is no place for them in Nyasaland." He reiterated his threat to pull his country out of Welensky's Central African Federation "as soon as possible," and added ominously: "If they insist on us staying in the Federation, they'd better bring their soldiers...
...according to Rexroth's directions, "emerges, as if from clay, rises, stretches, yawns, discovers one by one the use of his limbs." He then gets acquainted with the garden's livestock as they cavort in pairs and trios - the walrus and the ape, the lamb and the leopard, the rabbit, the skunk and the fox - all costumed to [he last whisker. Weary at last of the ballet of the beasts, Adam rests on the gnarled, raised roots of a tree. It is then that Eve (Sally Bailey) emerges from underneath him. For Choreographer Christensen, the biggest problem...