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...brilliant table talk on politics and culture from such guests as Law Professor Felix Frankfurter and Pianist Rudolf Serkin...
...Royal Ballet, which old fans still nostalgically refer to as the Sadler's Wells Ballet, opened with Romeo and Juiet. The company has filmed the ballet with Rudolf Nureyev and Dame Margot Fonteyn, truly the most remarkable pair in the ballet world. Dame Morgot, now 48, dances the role of the 14-year-old Juliet with an unmatchable combination of grace and young ardor. Nureyev has often been likened to the legendary Nijinsky, le Dieu de la Danse, as the Edwardians called him before he went...
...spend money, not to raise it," says the Metropolitan Opera's resident patrician Rudolf Bing. But the general manager of the Met is not opposed to receiving contributions-and last week he got a big one. Eastern Air Lines announced that it was giving the Met $500,000, which will enable Bing & Co. to produce a new Ring cycle of four Wagnerian operas to be presented in as many years...
...Rudolf Nureyev proclaimed, Manhattan's Lincoln Center last week was "a ballet supermarket," and balletomanes dashed eagerly from aisle to aisle to sample the best offerings. At the New York State Theater, the American Ballet Theater opened a month-long stand featuring the man whom Nureyev considers the finest male dancer in the world: Denmark's Erik Bruhn. Meanwhile, a few grand jetés across the Lincoln Center plaza, London's Royal Ballet twirled past the midpoint of its six-week season at the Metropolitan Opera, featuring Margot Fonteyn and the male dancer whom Nureyev considers...
...CALLED LUCY, by Pierre Accoce and Pierre Quet, recounts the career of Swiss-based Master Spy Rudolf ("Lucy") Roessler, who accurately warned the Allies of every invasion from Poland to Russia itself-and was not believed...