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...Covent Garden since Ulanova was toted out of Juliet's tomb), Dancer Nerina turned in a performance of superb precision, fluency and lightness. The ballet had some stunning virtuoso bits: a pas de ruban running like a thread through the first two scenes, m which the lovers reel each other in and out of elaborate cats' cradles of pink rib bon; a scene-setting dance by a "cock and four rumpled "hens," whose strutting absurdities are closely modeled on th fowl Ashton observes at his Suffolk country home ("La Fille is my poor man's Pastoral Symphony...
...long ago, the thinkers on the RCA Victor staff were invited to invent a name for a new teen-age pop singer. Among the suggestions were "Erpsil Clevinger," "Ellie Oopman," "Cahn Edison" and "Rod Reel." None of these quite filled the bill, but the company soon hit on one that did -"Rod Lauren." Last week, big as life, Rod was climbing the charts with a pop hit called If I Had a Girl, having almost forgotten the fact that his real name is Roger Strunk...
...champagne farce. For at least two-thirds of the film, the thick-necked Schlotbarone bounce about hilariously, like a chorus line of caricature capitalists. In fact, the weakness of the picture as social satire is that too often it tickles where it ought to jab. Only in the last reel does the customer stop giggling, as in the bottom of the champagne glass he suddenly sees something hard to swallow. The moviemakers make him swallow it anyway. Oddly enough, Germans have not shrunk from the experience. Rosemary is the second most popular picture made in Germany since...
...most of the first reel the spectator sees nothing but financial tentacles, as a vast holding company stealthily envelops a small plastics manufacturer (Dean Jagger) and prepares to devour him. Then all at once the head and center of the conspiracy appears, and lo! it is not really a monster after all. It's a tall, dark and handsome young fellow (James Garner, better known as TV's Bret Maverick) who is rich but honest, smart with a heart-a sort of beatified billionaire who suffers terribly because he "can't make anything but money...
Victory is within his grasp. Will he permit it to be snatched from him by the villain (Herbert Lorn), a sneery guide from the neighboring valley who sneaks off in the predawn darkness to beat him to the top? The last reel of the picture finds him chasing the wretch up what purports to be (but obviously is not) the sheer east face of the Matterhorn, in an exhibition of freehanded folly that made one old Alpinist who saw the picture snicker and inquire: "Why not do it on roller skates? It's just as safe...