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High comedy is often compared to the dance, but few performances justify that analogy with the grace that this one musters. Miss Cross, who began her career here as a choreographer, has blocked this production like a ballet. Her most apt pupil, David Gullette (Feste) capers and leaps about in endless motion. He and Adrienne Harris (Maria) continually struck just the right pitch of lightness...
...with respect, says Headmaster French, it also searches for bright scholars "who have no connection with the past." But Caroline is undaunted. She reportedly informed her father not long ago that in her White House play school (where she is one of a dozen students), she is "the brightest pupil...
This is also a sign of Mr. Eisenberg's serene self-confidence. He has been a pupil of Pablo Casals for forty-two years ("I will always be his pupil") and in fact lived next door to Casals in Spain for fourteen years. But although he talks as if the fire of his inspiration were borrowed from his master, it would be hard to imagine a more creatively independent personality...
...Philadelphia Orchestra he did not go to Europe but to the New York Philharmonic, again an exception to the rule. ("I had never thought of Europe. It was Casals who made me go.") Casals first heard the young man in New York and invited him to become his only pupil in Spain. Eisenberg finally made his debut in Paris at the comparatively advanced...
Sybaritic Society. Watteau influenced most of the painters of his day, but none more than Nicolas Lancret. The pupil painted so much like the master that for a time people could scarcely tell their work apart. Though Lancret was never Watteau's equal, he mirrored the same pretty and fragile world that seemed to have nothing more on its mind than fun and leisure. In favoring mythology, the fashionable Jean François de Troy still kept the mood. His Leda could be any comely marquise languishing in her bath. Everything about the painting-its heavy lushness, its torpor...