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THERE MAY HAVE been a picture once in Shalako, but it got lost somewhere along the line. Its premise--European noblemen on a hunting safari in American Indian country--promised a possible reversal of an old Henry James theme, and certainly a chance to see familiar territory peopled by somewhat stranger animals than one finds in your run-of-the-mill western. But it was not to be: after the dramatic novelty of an execrably-filmed first five minutes, the Europeans prove themselves no different from any old tourist-class wagon train passenger. We are left to coast along, languidly...
Died. Prince Felix Youssoupoff, 80, gentlemanly assassin of Czarist Russia's "Mad Monk," Rasputin; of a stroke; in Paris. Heir to one of his nation's greatest fortunes (an estimated $350 million), Youssoupoff plotted with other noblemen in 1916 to murder Rasputin because of his hypnotic hold on the Czarina. As the Prince told it, he lured the holy man to his palace, where it took a combination of cyanide, five bullets and a bludgeoning to accomplish the deed. A refugee in France after the Revolution, Youssoupoff fought several court battles over its dramatization. Most recently he lost...
...anyhow, for it must be remembered that in 11th-century Scotland the kingship was an elective office and that Duncan's public announcement making his son Malcolm the heir-apparent was actually illegal. When Macbeth and Banquo first hear the Witches prophecies, they laugh at them until the noblemen enter to prove the first prophecy true. Later, when Lady Macbeth is egging her husband on, Colicos not only says, "Prithee, peace," but also strikes her to the floor in anger. This man is no willing regicide. When he first meets King Duncan face to face, he kneels loyally and stays...
Satins & Smiles. It was an age of spectacular superficiality, of fetes and fireworks, of lords and ladies alike bedecked in paints, powders and silk. La Tour portrayed his clients as they wished to see themselves, studiously recording their brilliant satins and laces, ignoring the facial lines of aging noblemen and their mistresses. But he was enough of an ironist not to ignore their unreal smiles and bored, malicious eyes...
...Spain's informalists, such as Luis Feito, present a modern vision of ancient agonies bred in the scorching sun. They convey a sense of decaying grandeur, human endurance and often bizarre imagination. Only 324 years before, below this newly established refuge of Iberian abstraction, Philip IV's noblemen staged a bullfight in the nearby Júcar River, charging the wading beasts from gondolas built in the shape of dolphins and sea monsters...