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...Michel, a young French archeologist, is about to leave for North Africa, a young girl with whom he has grown up confesses her love. Fond of her and desperately hoping, he marries Marcelline; but North Africa, where homosexuality is rife, quickly complicates rather than resolves their problem. Michel succumbs, while the anguished, wholly disillusioned and half-deserted Marcelline takes to drink. Finding she is pregnant, she leaves Michel and goes back to France. He follows her there, and partly because of their coming child, partly because they are both so lost, they decide to remain together, clutching wildly...
...play remains, however, an effective formulation. As Michel, Cinemactor Louis Jourdan is excellent throughout; as Marcelline, Geraldine (Midsummer) Page is uneven but has excellent moments...
While granting that the advice in their letter is fine, I feel that the H.M.C.'s concern is belatedly expressed, and does little to excuse their evasion of a vital responsibility to the climber and skier, not in print, but on the slope of mount Washington. R. Michel Zilberstein...
...company had drawn on the talents of such famed members as Michel (Petroushka) Fokine, Vaslav (Afternoon of a Faun) Nijinsky, Leonide (Boutique Fantasque) Massine, Bronislava (Les Noces) Nijinska. For the most part, in their choreography, they had developed luxuriant numbers flush with gestures, elaborate costumes and scenery. With Diaghilev's blessing. Balanchine launched a one-man revolution of the right: he went back to severe, classic principles. Instead of involved, fairy-tale plots, he shaved his storylines down to wisps of familiar, ancient legends. Thus began his continuing battle to reduce ballet to its fundamentals: the dance itself...
...Anita Boyer Field, 36, wife of party-lining Millionaire Frederick Vanderbilt Field, headed off into Mexico early this month. Her voluntary move was made, with Justice's blessing, so that she might avoid deportation on charges that she illegally entered the U.S. from Canada. With her went Michel, 12, and Elise, 9, her children by Dr. Raymond Boyer, former McGill University chemistry professor who did a two-year stretch for passing Canadian secrets to Soviet spies during World...