Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...first reaction was that toughs from the Communist-front Lambrakis youth movement had gone on a rampage, were perhaps even attempting a coup. Instinctively, he ordered the guards doubled at Tatoi, telephoned his mother, Queen Frederika, in the nearby Athenian suburb of Psychiko, to gather all the royal kin she could locate into her house. He then telephoned officers in his palace in Athens to send out a force to rescue Arnaoutis and protect the Queen Mother. He ordered the Navy to put to sea as many ships as possible...
...audiences at that. The furor concerned the Britishmade film Ulysses (TIME, March 31). which carried subtitles in French. A few of James Joyce's occasional vulgarisms failed to travel well in translation. One familiar Anglo-Saxon phrase, for example, was accompanied by a subtitle that read Mon anus royal Irlandais! Other subtitles, which by necessity were shortened to keep pace with the spoken dialogue, carried little of the poetic fantasy and whimsy of Joyce's writing. Apparently offended more by the crude translations than by the content, some members of the audience cried "Shameful!" "Indecent...
...arid intellectual and his sex-parched wife arrive in London from the U.S. to visit his bull walrus of a father and two brothers in a house the family calls the "land of no holds barred." He eventually flees, but she stays on-with pleasure. Members of the Royal Shakespeare Company give the latest puzzle from Playwright Harold Pinter a polished, tempered performance...
Probably the last thing Mahler anticipated was that anybody would make a haunting, eloquent ballet out of the piece. Yet that is what British Choreographer Kenneth MacMillan, 37, has done. Last week at Manhattan's Lincoln Center, London's Royal Ballet gave Song its U.S. premiere in a performance that conveyed all the bitter-sweet flavor of Mahler's golden dregs...
More to Come. For MacMillan, the son of a Scottish chicken farmer who danced with the Royal Ballet until switching to choreography at 23 (and who now directs the ballet of the Berlin Opera), Song is an achievement that secures him a place in the front rank of younger choreographers. For the Royal Ballet, the performance was the high point of its first two weeks in New York (the start of a four-month U.S. tour). For New York ballet buffs, it was a sample of more to come. This week Royal Ballet Stars Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn make...