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...Dauphine, Maria of the Appia, discreetly toot horns and flash headlights to attract the prospect's attention. In a favorite gambit, pairs of klaxon girls pull right alongside male motorists; the one at the wheel keeps the car just abreast, the other casually unbuttons her blouse. Blonde "Insurance Nadia," on the other hand, got her name by her habit of gently jostling a male driver's rear bumper, then sidling out to coo that her insurance company will pay damages, if any-and making her proposition...
...Royal is evidently nearing a crossroads, with Fonteyn listed only as a "guest artist" (she has been away for much of the past year) and the company relying more and more on its mainstay classical ballets. There is no shortage of younger dancers, among them Nadia Nerina-whose performance in La Fille Mai Gardée conveyed glimpses of Ulanova's unearthly lightness-Annette Page, Anya Linden and, most notably, coldly brilliant Svetlana Beriosova, 28, widely heralded as heiress apparent to Fonteyn. The Royal last week also showed off its first-rate male principals: Michael Somes, Brian Shaw, Alexander...
...with lady voyagers. Before long the captain has taken a pratfall into a tray of lobster newburg, walked shudderingly across a boat deck alive with cries of water-borne passion, indulged in a spirited pie-throwing match with a roomful of children, and repulsed the sort of lowlife lady (Nadia Gray) that fictional characters are always repulsing. In no time at all, however, he meets the sort of highlife chick (Peggy Cummins) that fictional characters are always marrying; and at film's end, sure enough, he makes port...
Liza's feminine victory sets quite a precedent for U.S. musical theater. Women of the class and quality of France's austere Nadia Boulanger have guest-conducted the Boston Symphony and other orchestras; in a less memorable tradition there have always been all-girl dance bands. But conducting Broadway musicals has always been a man's job. Producers argue that women cannot command a male theater orchestra in day-in, day-out performances. Besides, if the girl conductor is good-looking, who wants to watch the show? Liza Redfield finally broke the monopoly by insisting that "music...
...building." Replacing Dorati in Minneapolis is Polish Conductor-Composer Stanislaw Skrowaczewski (pronounced Sta-nis-waff Skro-vah-cheff-ski), whose name is giving his new home town so much trouble that even the press release announcing his appointment misspelled it. A onetime student of France's famed Nadia Boulanger, Conductor Skrowaczewski, 36, became prominent after the war as a vigorous champion of modern music, in rapid succession directed three of Poland's top orchestras, also found time to write four symphonies, a ballet, four string quartets and a score of smaller works. When he made his U.S. debut...