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After one season with Petit, Jeffrey said "goodbye to union wages" and set out to lay the groundwork for a company of his own. He taught by day, took classes by night and, beginning at sunrise, held rehearsals for his own ballets, which were performed at the 92nd Street Y.M.H.A. In 1952, he rented a loft in a Greenwich Village building that formerly housed the American Communist Party and, in the best spirit of free enterprise, opened Robert Jeffrey's American Ballet Center...
...Jour, Godard's La Chinoise). To make things simpler, I eliminate European films made over two years ago but released in New York during 1967. Andrew Sarris has included Bunuels' Exterminating Angel and Renoir's Boudou saved From Drowning on his list; I would also mention Godard's Le Petit Soldat and Marker's Le Mystere Koumiko, were they eligible under my own rules. The films are listed in order of personal preference...
Gone are the days when small chil dren played contentedly with featureless rag dolls. Today's vogue is for realism, and toymakers now turn out dolls that can walk, talk, cry and even wet. When Frank Caplan, general manager of Creative Playthings, Inc., spotted a French doll called Petit Frere at Nürnberg's doll fair last March, he jumped at the opportunity to buy up distribution rights for the U.S. Renamed "Little Brother," the doll has a sweet angelic face, is, in fact, modeled after a Verrocchio Renaissance cherub in the Palazzo Vecchio in Florence...
...autobiography, projecting the author's own sense of exile. It embraces a quarter of a century of change in the life of a Jewish family near Warsaw in 1863. If the time and plot sound remote, the theme is not. The central character is a kind of petit bourgeois Job who has to endure the special ordeal also known to the modern family man: he is condemned to watch his children depart, with brutal casualness and indifference, from their upbringing...
...appeal from De Gaulle. The Human Rights Commissions of France, Italy and Belgium dispatched observers to plead his case. His father, who is a lawyer, his mother, who is a Paris city councilwoman, and his childhood nurse all flew to the Bolivian capital of La Paz to rescue their petit chou...