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...Dominican Republic. Propelled by dreams of glory, plus promises of hard cash by anti-Trujillo exiles, the young men, ranging in age from 17 to 29 and most of them unemployed, got tickets to Havana and what they thought to be a chance at high adventure. Said Pablo Vélez. 23, "We were going to make a lot of money and shoot down Trujillo...
...Pablo's Strad. Slonimsky, who was born in St. Petersburg on April 27, 1894 (according to unchecked information), does his sleuthing from a book-lined study on Boston's Beacon Street. He attributes his success as a detective to his refusal to trust authorities. But even Slonimsky can err. He "feels disgraced" by the fact that he reprinted the story that Queen Isabella II of Spain gave Violinist Pablo de Sarasate a Stradivarius when he was ten (actually, as Slonimsky later learned, Sarasate bought the Strad himself when he was 22). And Slonimsky's new dictionary contains...
...jaunty smile flickered with nervous awe as Boulevardier Maurice Chevalier, 70, at the end of a San Juan engagement, paid a respectful call on Cellist Pablo Casals, 82. The two had never met, although Casals recalled admiring a Chevalier performance in 1904. For nearly an hour two of the youngest old men in music chatted warmly in French-mostly on the glories of age. Then Casals announced: "Now I will play for you." Chevalier swallowed, blinked, finally wept openly as his host hunched over his instrument and played The Song of the Birds, a Catalan folk melody and unofficial anthem...
...newspapers. Maria Schell was moving enough as Maria, but the sentimentally written character scarcely seemed real, while Maureen Stapleton lacked the necessary hardness for Pilar. Eli Wallach was superb as the irresponsible gypsy Rafael. But in a far too slowly paced production, it was only Pablo, the broken guerrilla leader, who became a really moving figure; as played by Nehemiah Persoff, the wreck of a once brave man had touches of real tragedy, and strangely, the coward's lines rang truer, more human than the surrounding heroics...
Owlish Cellist Pablo Casals, 81, ventured a hopeful thought on a species of U.S.-bred cacophony scarcely ever ventured on his mellow instrument: "Rock 'n' roll is a disease that shall pass away as quickly as it was created. It is a sad thing for your country. It is nothing, nothing...