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...social statements in the black and Puerto Rican casting, limiting trendiness to the score. Shakespeare's plot remains largely intact, with its orderly parallels between pairs of individuals. There are the skeptics towards love, Julia and Valentine, and those who use seductive wiles to break them, Proteus and Silvia. There are the two masters and the two servants, each couple bound in friendship though capable of deceit. And then there's the dog Crab, who qualifies for both categories. The mutt is not only ungrateful for the constant companionship of Launce, he even sullies the courtship between Launce's master...
...forte lies in the elegant enunciation of Shakespeare's lines with a pleasing hint of an English accent. Her waiting-woman Lucetta (Annie Fine) has the only vaguely Puerto Rican visage of the lot and sings with stern indignation about "The Land of Betrayal." Judy Banks as Silvia dances with enough seductive verve to convince you that indeed she "wouldn't know a spiritual relationship...
...notable victim of the decree was Silvia Gingold, 29, a public school teacher in Hesse, who was denied civil servant status a year ago because she was a Communist Party member. Germans were outraged when Hesse authorities refused to take into account Silvia's special circumstances: her Jewish parents had fled from Nazi Germany into France, where they joined the Communist-led Resistance...
After the honeymoon, the King will resume his hectic round of ceremonial duties. He and Silvia, however, will have to find some time to inspect the more than 1,500 wedding gifts they have received (including a modern sculpture from President Ford and a rocking chair for two from Finland's President). They must also face the task of providing an heir to the throne; under the constitution, female succession is banned and, except for a 63-year-old uncle, Carl Gustaf is the last male of the royal line...
Married. Swedish King Carl XVI Gustaf, 30, and German-born Silvia Sommerlath, 32; both for the first time; in Stockholm (see THE WORLD...