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...Myrta, Queen of the willis, Marie-Christine Mouis is a powerful, ruthless tyrant. She has at her command the entire corps de ballet, a force whose threat stems from their anonymity. The willis are terrifying in their immobility, their lack of individuality and their lack of pity. The corps does admirably with the almost impossible task of moving as one. They transform a group of 16 women into a single deathly, supernatural unit...
Mouis' first entrance as Myrta consists simply of a diagonal of tiny steps on pointe. Shrouded in a white veil, she gently skims the floor, an ethereal, cold-blooded creature. From that moment Mouis begins her reign of terror against all unwitting men. In contrast to Bauer's interpretation of the willi as a fragile being, Mouis infuses her role with a startling vitality that surprisingly is not misplaced. Mouis' exhibition of strength and her direct attack of the steps lends credibility to Myrta's forceful and unforgiving character; her interpretation makes the Queen mature not naive...
...John L. Lewis still packs a wallop. His luxurious mane is streaked with grey; he is still saddened by the death two years ago of his wife Myrta; he has given up smoking, and now just chews cigars down to two-inch butts. But his vocabulary is still full of sound & fury, his anger still as righteous as Jere miah's, his hold on the United Mine Workers still complete...
...Died. Myrta Edith Bell Lewis, 62, small, quiet, self-effacing wife of John L. Lewis; in Alexandria, Va. Daughter of a country doctor, she was a schoolteacher when she married the 27-year-old coal miner whose education had ended when he was twelve. As his wife she laid out a program of study for him, encouraged him to read, led him to the classics-subsequently could not keep him from quoting them. Well-informed in politics and labor, she never expressed her opinions in public, took small part in social affairs except as companion to her husband...
Last week Drs. William Saphir and Katharine Myrta Howell of Chicago's Michael Reese Hospital had good news for Sally and the estimated 15,000 other U. S. typhoid carriers. They announced, in the Journal of the American Medical Association, "surprising success" in purging a carrier so that she stayed purged...
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