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Jerome Robbins' Pas de Trois, a posturing satire on classical ballet done to Berlioz' thundering Damnation of Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't remember what he is expected to do next. Good clean fun, and skillfully done, it is also a symptom of ballet's present introversion. Pas de Trois was postponed twice because of Ballerina Alicia Markova's illness, was finally put on without her. Critics found her substitute, veteran...
...wing parties, rose in the Manitoba Legislature to denounce U.S. troops stationed in Canada. "Canada," said he, "is being sucked into United States' . . . militarism and is in grave danger of losing her sovereignty." A U.S. plane, he added, had been stunting only 60 feet over houses in The Pas, Man., and "the citizens were very angry." He demanded that all U.S. troops in Manitoba (there are 113 at the Canadian base at Fort Churchill) be forced to leave. A few days later, the Manitoba Legislature's only Labor-Progressive (Communist), William Kardash, seconded the motion...
Kanin's heroine makes rapid strides toward a whisking acquaintance with basic politics and basic poise. From first-act faux pas (greeting a dowager: "wanna wash yer hands or anything, dearie?") through the rigors of American history and sixth-grade spelling, the Education of Billie Dawn proceeds apace. The instructor is out of the ordinary: a New Republic man, he helps her to discover her social conscience and moral scruples in one fell swoop. Perhaps, she concludes, mistressing is out of date...
Only two of the regular backfield will start against the Cantabs, Roy Swingler, driving full back, and chuck Nelson, right half, top pass receiver and pas defender of Abe Englemen. Tommy Dorsey, left halfback may start although he has been bothered by a nose injury this week...
Andy Muldoon dropped back into the end zone as he took the pas from center, and flipped a short screen pass over the charging green forward wall to Sto Bell, who galloped all the way behind a thundering herd of nine Deacons. Bell then booted the conversion to account for all the scoring in the contest...