Word: royalities
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Normally, Palm Beach society stays only for the first act when visiting mummers put on a show at the local Royal Poinciana Playhouse. No point in wasting time at the theater with so many parties to attend. This time everyone stayed to the very end of a not-so-hot comedy called A Warm Body. After all, the star was one of their own: Actress and Post Cereals Heiress Dina Merrill, 41, who returned to her family's old wintering grounds to appear in the one-week run. Her mother, Mrs. Marjorie Merriweather Post, beamed proudly from...
...world première last week of Roland Petit's Paradise Lost - no direct kin, obviously, to John Milton's sturdy epic of the same name. Neon eggs are unusual enough, but more unusual was the fact that the work was hatched by London's Royal Ballet, the venerable guardian of traditional repertory. What is more, the roles of Adam and Eve were danced by the foremost duo in romantic ballet, Rudolf Nureyev and Margot Fonteyn...
...that sort of daring was exactly what the Royal Danish Ballet was looking for. Typical of the new look he has given the Danes is his flashy new production of Bartok's nightmarish The Miraculous Mandarin, which has been running in Copenhagen for the past few weeks. A series of taut opening scenes, ominously underscored by Bartok's crashing, nervous music, sets the sordid story: a leering, undulating streetwalker lures her men to a shadowy room where a trio of gangsters beat and rob them. The last victim is a hideously ugly, stooped Chinese mandarin, danced by Flindt...
...least of the company's attractions is the passionately extroverted dancing of Flindt himself, who spells his strong roster of male soloists at least once a week. Trained at the Royal Ballet, Flindt twice left the company to roam the world, dancing with a wide variety of troupes, most recently the Paris Opera Ballet. Having brought all that he learned back home, Flindt now fills his hall for every new program. The venerable ballet of Denmark is clearly in the hands of a Royal flash...
...damage. Back in his native Britain, he found that some of the supposedly phlegmatic Scots of the Grampian Hills were taking analgesic powders and tablets in overdoses that ran as high as ten tablets a day for 14 years. In a two-year period, 36 patients appeared at Aberdeen Royal Infirmary with kidney disease and "a history of long-continued and excessive intake of analgesics." Besides their kidney damage, 30 of the patients were suffering from anemia, six had peptic ulcers and twelve had suffered gastrointestinal bleeding...