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...Laurence Olivier piped some 150 show-world guests (among them: Lena Home, Peter Ustinov, Ralph Bellamy) aboard a chartered excursion liner for a midnight cruise up the Hudson River. Garbed somewhat loosely in naval attire (explained mink-clad Actress Jessica Tandy: "I'm dressed as a Russian lady sailor"), Olivier's un-nautical crew dipped into champagne and stout, danced Scottish reels to the skirl of a bagpipe, taxied home from the cruise at 3:30 in the morning...
...taking the Old Man of the Sea upon his shoulders, Sindbad the Sailor thought he was merely performing a small favor. But once the Old Man's legs were locked about his neck, Sindbad seemed doomed to carry his burden forever. This theme, that one good turn deserves another, and another and another, runs like a magic thread through nearly half the 13 short stories in this new book by Bernard Malamud, 44, an assistant professor of English at Oregon State College whose The Assistant (TIME, April 29, 1957) was one of the best of last year...
...home, he passed a theater. Lightheaded and confused, he found himself asking for a tryout-at the box office. The stage manager happened to be there, and ten minutes later he had three parts: Chinese coolie, French pirate, British sailor. Salary: ?2 a week. "But isn't the Equity minimum ?3?" Alec shyly inquired. "None of that talk around here," the manager snarled. Alec said no more, but next day he quietly called Equity and got his ?3. He was worth every penny. He threw himself passionately into the role of the coolie, even shaved...
...curtain-raiser of the evening was a rather disquieting short opera, The Poor Sailor, by Darius Milhaud. The libretto, by Jean Cocteau, is a weird, disturbing story which is reinforced by a sinister, but otherwise undistinguished score...
After writing bushels of novels, Alexandre Dumas felt a need for fresh material. He started off toward the Orient in a fishing smack, taking with him a 19-year-old "admiral" decked out in a musical comedy sailor suit. As Dumas wrote to a friend: "The charming little creature is in the habit of becoming a woman at night." Her name was Emilie Cordier, and she became pregnant just before the fishing smack ran into Giuseppe Garibaldi, then busy invading Sicily with his famed "Thousand." Forgetting the Orient, Dumas and the expectant admiral hurried to the great patriot...