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...hospitality, the program planned for Jawaharlal Nehru's official U.S. visit this week is as austere as vegetable curry. Wryly mindful of the pomp and circumstance unlimbered for his old foe, Pakistan's Ayub Khan, India's Prime Minister expressly requested Washington to forgo "medieval splendor." From a private luncheon with President Kennedy at Newport to an address before the U.N. General Assembly, from Broadway's Camelot to California's Disneyland, Nehru's crowded schedule barely left him time to change the perennial red rose on his achkan tunic...
Kwamina tries to dance and drum its way out of its plotty doldrums and deadweight writing. Thanks to Choreographer Agnes de Mille, it sometimes does. Sinuously quivering shoulders and hypnotically swiveling hips make the stage thrum with barbaric force and sensual splendor, most notably in Mammy Traders. But the dances are less show builders than clock stoppers. Between them, the wordy worthy talk ticks on. The interracial love affair is played with such fastidious good taste by Terry Carter and Sally Ann Howes as to be flavorless...
...Splendor of Kazan...
...writer's pride demands that I deny to you that the script of Splendor in the Grass [Oct. 13] was "heavily edited" by Director Elia Kazan. This frequent criticism is leveled against him unfairly...
...friend of Elia Kazan. He has directed a play of mine.-Perhaps I am, therefore, disqualified from commenting on your critic's incredibly cute and vulgar personal attack on him in the review of Splendor in the Grass...