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...best piece of the evening was Todd Bolender's Souvenirs, a spoof of pre-World War I manners, mores and dress, with a setting that suggested a hotel in a Feydeau comedy. There is a small army of standard farce characters, including a jealous husband, a languid vamp, a preening gigolo. Weighed down with a pound or so of mascara, Manola Asensio was a wonderfully deadpan, sultry vamp, but the farce- predictable bedroom mix-ups, a boop-a-doop beachside romp-is forced...
Died. Dorothy Shakespear Pound, 87, forbearing widow of Poet Ezra Pound, with whom she shared his triumphs and eccentricities-and her annuity-from 1914 to 1960; near Cambridge, England. She met Pound in pre-World War I London and introduced him to members of her circle, including W.B. Yeats. She designed several of her husband's books and magazines in Paris, and was the mother of Pound's son Omar. During World War II she shared her home and her husband with Concert Pianist Olga Rudge, who had borne Pound a daughter. Dorothy Pound followed her husband...
...what they pay for the goods and services that they use. Parity harks back to Washington's Depression-era effort to raise farm prices to their level in 1910-14, which farmers then remembered as "good times." The optimum parity is 100, the theoretical level that prevailed in pre-World War I days. Today, parity is running at a relatively high mark of 80. Considering that farm productivity has changed drastically in six decades, the notion of fixing farm prices to achieve a certain parity point is about as sensible as an attempt to set the defense budget...
...thus perhaps more satisfying. Victor Sjosfrom's performance as the doctor is simple, direct and true, and Gunnar Fisher's photography is lyrical. Renoir's social satire is as deep and (necessarily) involved as any written or filmed: it is also hugely entertaining. Viewing a tottering upper-class in pre-World War II France. Renoir involves us in an atmosphere where dated concepts of honor attained through individual merit (and in nationalist conquests) melt in the midst of equally outmoded and even blinder French aristocratic gamesmanship. Underneath the veneer, worker and German frustration seethes. The plotting and editing are whirlwind...
...beaten down for it; because of the accuracy of troubled social backgrounds the audience is engaged sympathetically. The wronged heroes of The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes and now Frenzy are trapped by histories of international war and British impotence. The first two innocents were caught up in pre-World War II subterfuge; Dick Blainey of Frenzy is a ripe Jimmy Porter figure, an RAF squadron leader (when could he have flown--during Suez?) unable to rise successfully on the rungs of the Welfare State...