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...sugar-spun spoof of small fry called Street Games. It was one of four ballets danced in a one-night stand at Central Park's Delacorte Theater in New York by the British troupe, which has been making its official U.S. debut at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in Lee, Mass. This is a casual group that sometimes seems more inclined to do a cha cha cha than an entrechat. Rather like the American Ballet Theater, the Western Theater company wants to avoid dance in the abstract and stress the psychology of personal relationships and straight storytelling...
...company and audience. Peter Cazalet, Hazel Merry and Sylvia Wellman danced their eternal season in hell with affecting desolation, though Choreographer Maurice Bejart's strained balletic invention at one point reduced them to peering dolefully through the symbolically barred backs of chairs. Returning to Jacob's Pillow, the company put on The Wedding Present, an emotionally charged dance drama with homosexual overtones, about the crackup of a marriage. A dance shocker, of a sort, was offered in a scene in which two males embrace and kiss...
...take its case to the Soviet people: "I declare to those who would like to overthrow us-I challenge you, comrades-let's pick out any plant or collective farm. You present your program and we will present ours. You won't need armor or a pillow for protection. Our people are polite. They'll listen and say: 'Get out of here...
...whup him like I was his Daddy") that Britons still paid up to 6 guineas ($17.64) for a rain-spattered seat, and raided the cooky jar to bet on Cooper (at odds ranging from 5-2 to 4-1). A 78-year-old lady even sent Cooper an embroidered pillow with a note pleading: "Knock out this Clay fellow in the first round, please...
Still and all, as spectacles go, Cleopatra goes reasonably well, and may safely be seen by those who can afford it. But customers will be well advised to do what the wife of Senator Jacob Javits did on opening night. She brought a little pillow to use in a pinch...