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...stage of the dance theater at Jacob's Pillow, Mass, stood an erect, grey-haired little woman, smiling before the skirl of applause. As it drummed on, she leaped from the stage like a 20-year-old ballerina. "You can't imagine," said 71-year-old Marie Rambert, "with what fear and trembling we came here." Occasion: the U.S. debut of the Ballet Rambert, Britain's oldest dance company...
Although Britain's Royal Ballet is much better known to the public, the 33-year-old Rambert company is more revered by balletomanes as the most important modern breeding ground of British choreographers and dancers. At Jacob's Pillow, the company presented one contemporary work, Kenneth MacMillan's Laiderette, plus a full-length Giselle, long a specialty of the house. Neither as grand in its effects nor as fiery in its execution as the Royal Ballet, the Rambert version demonstrated a warmly intimate style that emphasized reality instead of fantasy, dramatic clarity instead of pyrotechnics...
...Pilot Edward Sommers, 44, kept checking with the tower for wind direction and the state of preparations for his landing. (Meanwhile, stewardesses served dinner to the remarkably hungry passengers.) At Pilot Sommers' request, Idlewild operations sent out fire trucks to lay down a 4-in. pillow of foam on the last 3,000 ft. of the runway...
...White was determined to unravel the mystery of its origin. Mainland oldsters remembered the idol, all right, but they were evasive, afraid that White would impugn their Catholicism with a report of pagan behavior. In the end, the author reports mischievously, the Godstone turned out to be the stone pillow of an early saint...
...expression by Travis B. Linn; and Jacques C. Feuillan almost completely captures the poignancy inherent in the kindly Chaplain's humor, the humor of a man who thinks rather little but feels "a good deal," to whom legal matters are Greek "except, of course, that I understand Greek." And pillow-stuffed Julius Novick as Justice Tappercoom is witty and partly wise, eager for order but nonetheless good-humored...