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Last week crowds thronged to hear the student orchestra of Manhattan's Juilliard School of Music play its first concert in the fair's Grand Auditorium, responded with such applause that Conductor Jean Morel had to come back and lead two encores from Stravinsky's Firebird. And the main fairgrounds competition the Juilliard musicians had to buck came from another U.S. group: Jerome Robbins' "Ballets: U.S.A." troupe, which at the same hour was packing the U.S. Pavilion Theater by presenting such gustily American dance pieces as The Concert and New York Export: Opus Jazz...
...surface, the book (its setting is French Equatorial Africa) tells the adventures of a dentist named Morel who becomes obsessed with the notion of protecting wild fauna from hunters. But Novelist Gary is really concerned with "another animal who needed protection"-man. Elephants to Morel are "the last and greatest living image of liberty that still existed on earth." Man, in the midst of his bad dreams of extinction by nuclear warfare, simply cannot afford to allow a noble form of life to be needlessly slaughtered. Morel has learned his respect for dignity in a hard school-a Nazi concentration...
Tusk Force. To most, Morel is half-crazed, a crank at best, his pro-pachyderm activities comic and futile. But Gary wonderfully evokes what the elephants mean to Morel, so that his actions to protect them become a "hymn of hope." Morel hates those who have made a fashion of the safari-"impotents," "alcoholics" and sexually frustrated women. The hunters' bullets stay inside the hides of the beasts for years; wounded elephants pitifully use their trunks to plaster mud on the suppurating bullet wounds...
...avenge this, Morel burns villages, destroys a plantation owner's house and an illicit tannery specializing in wastepaper baskets made of elephants' feet; in a desert cabaret he arranges to have the backside of France's most famous woman hunter publicly whaled. By this time Morel has allies. Somehow his gesture toward saving the elephants has attracted the world's attention. Like Albert Schweitzer, Morel has become a symbol for those discontented with the quality of modern existence. His allies, in the nature of things, are an odd lot. His personal Maquis, or tusk force, consists...
...names in years. So far, none of their finds is likely to jeopardize the record sales of such old reliables as Jo Stafford and Dinah Shore, but some are well worth a listen. Bethlehem puts its money on Helen Carr (Why Do I Love You) and Terry Morel (Songs of a Woman in Love); EmArcy displays the modern phrasings of Helen Merrill; Storyville has uncovered a sweet-husky voice on Introducing Milli Vernon; Liberty's Lonely Girl exploits its success with Julie London, a talented miss who spends most of the record breathing down the listener's neck...