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...some other new ballets: Three Virgins and a Devil (by Agnes de Mille), a Daliesque-Italian-primitive trifle in which a monkey-like Satan deftly garners three damsels; an enlarged version of Billy the Kid (by Eugene Loring, with music by Aaron Copland), a rich, loamy piece of Americana; Pas de Quatre (Anton Dolin), reconstructing the performance which the four greatest 19th Century ballerinas gave before Queen Victoria...
...Chinese Dance from Tchaikovsky's Nutcracker Suite, but can't keep up with the big mushrooms; Ben Ali Gator, premier danseur of an ostrich ballet set to Ponchielli's corny Dance of the Hours; Susan, the hippopotamus ballerina whose blimplike cavortings in a pas de deux with Ben Ali Gator literally bring down the house in a wreck of flying plaster; Bacchus and his donkey Jacchus, who trip and roll through the Grant Woodland scape of Beethoven's Pastoral Symphony...
Last week one faux pas was made and another was narrowly averted. The blun der: BBC, despite instructions for strict secrecy, announced that on July 1 Sir Stafford had had a three-hour talk with Joseph Stalin. The narrow escape: Be cause the mails are impossibly slow, Sir Stafford corresponds by cable with his wife in London. Recently he told her he had bought an Airedale named Joe. Last week, Lady Cripps told friends, she wrote a cable to her husband, ended it with "Greetings to Joe," saw her blunder, struck out the last word, substituted "Airedale...
...silence while the Father Superior reads from the Scriptures to take their minds off their plates. Malicious tongues have it that they are sometimes overzealous in conforming to the Catholic ritual; and it is related that the late Cardinal Hayes warned a blundering altar boy that his faux-pas might soon be adopted by "the brothers of St. Mary the Divine." But the Episcopalian fathers aver their complete freedom from the stiff-necked formalism of the Papist Church...
...Paris Opera Comique, although Debussy had agreed that Maeterlinck's newlywed wife (and longtime mistress), Georgette Leblanc, should have it. Maeterlinck, vexed, publicly hoped that the opera would be a failure; there was much pamphleteering against it; Mary Garden's Scottish-American accenting of "Je ne suis pas heureuse" was roundly jeered. But Pelleas...