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...Balanchine's 73rd ballet was a smash success, his 74th two nights later was as close to an unqualified flop as Balanchine ever comes. Bayou, danced to a thin and repetitious suite from Composer-Critic Virgil Thomson's Louisiana Story film score, was simply not Classicist Balanchine's meat. His adventure in Americana was little more than tired cliche...
...former princely state of Hyderabad lies diamond-like on the plush-green tableland of southern India. In 1948 the Communists tried to grab Hyderabad. Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru sent in 10,000 police, outlawed the Communist Party, and jailed 6,000 Reds. The Communists switched from smash & grab to a confidence-man technique: through a phony People's Democratic Front they began sponsoring candidates for the first All-India general elections in history, an immense and impressive undertaking in which 173 million people (most of them illiterate) are marching to the polls in an election which will take three...
Point of No Return (adapted by Paul Osborn from J. P. Marquand's novel) is a sure smash hit. Yet it is a hit at the expense of being a good play. Most of the Marquand virtues are discernible, but in Paul Osborn's version they are doled out in the smallest of small change. The whole thing has a smart, professional veneer, but it has no real psychological or satiric impact...
...Smash Wind-Up. But the story was too big to stop. Hardly had Actress Bennett finished her appearance as the forgiving wife when Husband Wanger, released on bail, turned up at home, packed up his belongings and moved out to a bachelor's apartment. In the hospital Lang maintained a stony silence, refused to press charges. But the Los Angeles district attorney promptly announced that he would bring the case to trial just the same, and Hollywood shuddered again...
...whole thing, said one worried publicity director, "is just the smash wind-up of Movietime, U.S.A."-the public-relations festival designed, among other things, to convince the country that Hollywood is just like Main Street anywhere...