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...Allan Shivers, Georgia's Governor Herman Talmadge and Senator Walter George-promptly came out for Russell. All of them know that, at the moment, he has about as much chance of being nominated as a boll weevil has of winning a popularity contest at a cotton planters' picnic. Then what are they trying...
Before the world première of a new ballet last week, Lincoln Kirstein, general director of the New York City Ballet, came out of the wings and made a little hands-across-the-sea speech. Picnic at Tintagel, he explained, is something very special. It is not only an all-English affair, with choreography by Frederick Ashton of Sadler's Wells, scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton and music by Sir Arnold Bax. It might even be called "the first fruits of the new Elizabethan...
...party of "trippers," costumed in 1916-style dusters, derbies and veils, comes to picnic in the ruins of the Cornish Castle of Tintagel. It soon develops that the romantic young man is in love with the beautiful young girl, even though she is married and her husband is along. About the time this situation has begun to look hopeless, both romantically and dance-wise, the indiscreet lovers drink to each other, and go into a magic-potion trance. The stage darkens, the ruins of Tintagel fly up, the dusters, derbies and veils come off, and in a flash the trippers...
Ashton produced little that was new in ballet movement. But he proved again how well he can handle character, mime and storytelling. For an audience whose principal fare is George Balanchine's classical abstractions, Ashton's little trip to Tintagel made a picnic indeed...
Films like this one may soon replace the comic book as a means of luring students into the R.O.T.C. They show what fun the big boys have with real guns and million dollar airplanes, and also promote the rosy illusion that War is pretty much of a picnic...