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DIED. Bosley Crowther, 75, sober, scholarly film critic for the New York Times from 1940 to 1967, and author of The Lion's Share: The Story of an Entertainment Empire (1957) and Hollywood Rajah: The Life and Times of Louis B. Mayer (1960); of a heart attack; in Mount Kisco...
...story is a boggler. Nikiya (Makarova), a bayadére, or temple dancer, and the imperious Rajah's daughter Gamzatti (Cynthia Harvey) are rivals for the love of the great warrior Solor (Anthony Dowell), who pledges himself to Nikiya over a sacred fire. Later the Rajah chooses Solor to marry his daughter. If this sounds like Aida, it is. In the ballet, both women are murderous. Gamzatti, who plants a deadly snake among flowers given to the dancer, is the successful killer, but Nikiya has ectoplasmic revenge. Her spirit appears first in a lyrical vision to Solor, and again...
...same time, private companies were paying as much as 90% of their profits in direct and indirect taxes. A bloated civil service, 420,000 strong, was required for an island population of 14.5 million. Recalls Rajah Maharaja, a leading businessman: "Many civil servants indulged in vindictive interference...
...early 20th century European paintings from 1880-1945 on view. And where else, in the same day, can one look at the only complete manuscript of a Mozart opera in this country (Der Schauspieldirektor, at the Pierpont Morgan Library), a brilliantly nostalgic collection of Victorian photographs of the Indian rajah (at Asia House Gallery) and a full-dress retrospective of French Surrealist André Masson (at the Museum of Modern Art)? Only, this July, in New York...
...pass her songs from person to person in the audience, and the way the slinky soprano voice wooed the ears as much as the lithe body invited the eyes. By 1927 she had received an estimated 40,000 love letters and 1,192 proposals of marriage, one from a rajah who offered to get rid of his harem. Acting on the theory that the show never ended, Baker could be seen regularly strolling down the Champs-Elysees with two leopards or a pair of swans on a leash. Gradually she found France more congenial and became a citizen...