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...DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit-finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation-is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt...
...DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN, by Romain Gary. The classic Jewish gambit-finding macabre humor in extreme tribulation-is used with uncommon originality in this allegorical novel of genocide and national guilt...
...DANCE OF GENGHIS COHN by Romain Gary. 244 pages. World...
...Born Romain de Tirtoff in St. Petersburg, Erté, an admiral's son, adopted a nom de palette based on his initials shortly after he arrived in Paris in 1912. Now a dapper 74, he is still going strong at his studio, turning out costumes and sets for avant-garde operas. He has also designed a ballet to be shown on CBS-TV this Christmas, and contributed seven huge floats to Flying Colors, a musical spectacular starring Maurice Chevalier that will open next week at Expo 67. Still addicted to the ornate fantasies...
...fine loony beginning for a high comedy in period style, but the flashbacks that follow bring Lady L to a spotty end. Her confession story, plucked from Romain Gary's novel by protean Writer-Director Peter Ustinov (who also spills out of a minor role as an addled Bavarian prince), describes how a scrumptious Parisian laundress rises to greatness as the wife of David Niven, one of England's most debonair lords. En route to her destiny. Sophia is delayed briefly in a bordello, which has chambers designed for train buffs or Arabian Knights. There she meets Paul...