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...production (including Julia May Scott, daughter of an American Negro and a Russian mother) were unknown to the West. They were drawn from the corps de ballet on the theory that they would be less hidebound by classical technique than the older dancers (an exception: famed Soloist Maya Plisetskaya, dancing the courtesan Aegina). Lavishly supported by the government, the Bolshoi currently has some 250 regular dancers and mimes, including what is probably the most brilliant collection of soloists in the world...
Heading the list is the legendary Galina Ulanova, who at 47 has slowed down to an average of three ballets a month, but whose free-flowing line and effortless technique are still unmatched by any other dancer in the company. Ready to replace her are Maya Plisetskaya, 31, with her forceful, passionate style and broad, floating leaps; Raissa Struchkova, also 31, whose style in such a work as The Fountain of Bakhchisarai is warmly brilliant rather than deeply emotional; Marina Kondratieva, a rising star at 23, whose lightness and lyrical qualities make her a notable Cinderella...
...house of Van Gogh's first love, who rejects him with a shout of "you redheaded fool"; Etten, Holland, in front of the Van Gogh's home, where he is rejected by his cousin Kay with the same taunt; a blazing outdoor scene at Aries; the erotic Maya dream sequence; Madame Louise's brothel, where the psychotic Van Gogh cuts off his ear; and finally the shadowy deathbed scene, in which the painter's death is announced by the offstage firing of a revolver and by the slow illumination of his paintings, ranged about the dark...
...buyers went in free. Some exhibitors could hardly believe the size of their sales. Belgium's Boisiree Van Dan Heuvel, which usually sells 200 cases of beer a month in the U.S., signed one deal to deliver 82,000 cases in the next year. Textilemaker Maya de Mexico sold the output of its entire plant for the coming year. And the overall statistic was enough to make the show's backers schedule a repeat performance next year: orders at the fair totaled about $1 billion...
...York State Association for the Help of Retarded Children to strengthen and direct their demands for better clinics and training schools for feeble-minded children. A new book growing out of the association's work, Retarded Children Can Be Helped (Channel Press; $5), by LIFE Reporter Maya Pines and Photographer Cornell Capa, describes arid illustrates the latest techniques that can help two-thirds or more of retarded children to become poised, self-supporting adults...