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Personal Vision. Balanchine, who lives pleasantly on royalties that reach $20,000 in a good year, has been working without salary, but he pays his dancers well over union scale. His selflessness is highly purposeful; a choreographer, he says, has to "use people." Lincoln Kirstein, Balanchine's patron and...
Oriental Psyche v. Occidental Cupids
Oriental Psyche v. Occidental Cupids
For ten years, Don Carlos plunged the riches he gets from Mexican silver mines, South African diamonds and Spanish real estate into the empty 89-room palazzo. For an estimated $3,000,000, he created a magnificent clutter. Oriental porcelains and blue Sevres china, Roman drinking cups and medieval armory...
Other actors, however, help to take the edge off the moralizing tone. As the coolie, Armand Pohan is properly oriental, properly obsequious, and even manages to sound natural when forced to mouth Marxist slogans. Rand Rosenblatt, the Judge, utters capitalist sophistries with deep-throated authority. And Terry Malick inadvertenly adds...