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...would be safe), and, above all, charm any woman. Blithely, he considers himself neither Jew nor gentile: there is a Supreme Being, he decides, but one who reveals himself to no one and gives no indication of what is permitted or forbidden. As in his previous books and plays, Polish-born Author Singer delights in superstitious trappings -dybbuks, devils and such imps of Satan as the foul Dog of Egypt, who struggles with the Hound of Heaven for Yasha's soul. But there is little mystical murkiness in Singer's writing: it has a clean and sun-washed...
Included in the program were German Composer Hans Werner Henze's atonal, heavily percussioned fairy tale, The Emperor's Nightingale; Polish-born Composer Alexander Tansman's Stravinsky-flavored exercise, New Clothes for the King; Italian Composer Nino Rota's The Cunning Squirrel. All three were hits. Henze's work, in particular, won a shrill, twelve-minute ovation. But defenders of the moppets' taste were badly shaken when Carlo Franci's Final Comedy and Giorgio Ghedini's Girotondo-both tricked up with flung pies, flying paintpots and banana-peel pratfalls-seemed to touch...
...Paris. New York Herald Tribune Chitchatter Art Buchwald bumped into matriarchal Cosmetician Helena Rubinstein, got the lowdown on Soviet ladies who attended the recent U.S. exhibition in Moscow, where Polish-born Mme. Rubinstein, eightyish, was plugging her beauty aids. Said she: "They said our American models were zombies. Russian women take pride in being heavy and muscular. Perhaps the men like them that...
...Polish-born Marie Rambert studied briefly in Paris to be a physician, gravitated to the dance because of her admiration in the early 1900s for the U.S.'s flamboyant Isadora Duncan. After dancing in the famed Diaghilev company, she settled in London and opened her own school. To it thronged pupils who later graduated to Founder Rambert's company and then to careers in larger companies-Choreographers Frederick Ashton, Antony Tudor, Andrée Howard, Agnes de Mille. Swaddled in wrinkled black tights and shapeless pink top. Teacher Rambert would roam the practice room correcting ("Long the arms...
...handcuffed, really handcuffed." As Chief Justice, he explained, he could not hold news conferences to refute "lying" stories, was powerless to defend himself. "Have you read the book?" asked Mazo. When Warren admitted that he had only read excerpts in Look magazine and some book reviews, it was Polish-born, South Carolina-raised Earl Mazo who blew up. Said he: "I hope to God for the sake of the country that your decisions are based on much more full and accurate evidence than judgments on a book you haven't even read." Newsmen who had overheard the conversation...