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...exteriors reminiscent of Ludwig Bemelmans drawings; the story then moved to nightclub, courtroom and prison as it told of a girl who is wooed by a gangster, framed in a gangland shooting, sentenced to death, but liberated by a previous lover. The short piece was lavishly costumed-busboys in scarlet monkey suits, red-robed judges, policemen dressed in dominoes-and it amply displayed Ballerina Fracci's hard-edged, superbly controlled style...
Last week the onetime pastor of Balatonboglar, himself a refugee from Soviet tyranny, found that free men can remember quiet heroes. At a brief ceremony in the Washington residence of French Ambassador Herve Alphand, tall, scarlet-caped Bela Varga, 57, made a papal prelate during his 13 years in exile, was decorated with France's Legion of Honor, in remembrance of the refugees he saved...
...smoky recesses of a Manhattan cellar known as the Village Gate, Folk Singer Josh White was strumming Scarlet Ribbons and Saint James Infirmary. Uptown, at the 92nd Street Y.M.-Y.W.H.A., a group known as the Tichman Trio (clarinet, cello and piano) was threading its agile way through the chamber music of Beethoven and Brahms. Between the two -and a couple of blocks east of Carnegie Hall, where the Boston Symphony was unfolding Gustav Mahler's massive Symphony No. i-choir and soloists at St. Bartholomew's Church on Park Avenue were launching into Beethoven's stately Missa...
...good." Ebisu-san is the fat-faced Shinto god of wealth, and last week Osaka held its annual three-day festival in his honor, presented the god with the biggest cash offering in ten centuries. Priests in white kimonos and sky blue shirts, shrine virgins in billowing scarlet, shrine dancers in white and red, and musicians with flutes and harps kept things moving while nearly 2,000,000 of Osaka's 2,540,000 citizens flocked to Ebisu-san's two ancient shrines and contributed $53,000 in money offerings and another $42,000 in talismans called fukuzasa...
Died. Victor Seastrom (Sjoestroem), 80, Swedish actor and director, who crowned a lifetime's devotion to movies of power and art (including a Hollywood stint in the '203, where he directed He Who Gets Slapped, The Scarlet Letter) with his winsome portrayal of the memory-haunted old doctor in Ingmar Bergman's Wild Strawberries; after long illness; in Stockholm...