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...Angel Gabriel Borlenghi: "The prelates had erred in assuming that a procession could be held on Saturday after permission had been given for Corpus Christi Day proper." On Saturday, the Peronista press and radio announced that the ceremonies had been called off. The government drastically slowed down service on streetcar, bus and subway lines leading toward the Plaza de Mayo, but the Catholics came anyway, some of them walking miles from their homes in the suburbs...
...nights before, Ballerina Nora Kaye starred in another episode which also seemed funny-when it was all over. As Blanche du Bois in the grim ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire, she had come within a few bars of the moment when Stanley Kowalski is supposed to rape her. The scene should have ended with Blanche making a spinning jump at Stanley (Igor Youskevitch) and being flung helplessly over his shoulder as the lights go out. Ballerina Kaye (110 Ibs.) jumped, all right, but as she did her right arm landed in her partner's left...
...Swan Lake. Russian-born Danseur Noble Youskevitch, who was an aspiring Olympic gymnast when he turned to ballet in 1932, is one of the world's greatest male classical dancers. Last week he also leaped into a dramatic role: Stanley Kowalski, in Valerie Bettis' version of A Streetcar Named Desire. Dancer Youskevitch happily strutted his muscular way through the gloomy scenes, less expressive but considerably more agile than the dramatic version's Marlon Brando. ¶ Dancer-of-all-work John Kriza, 35, turned up in perhaps his most popular part, the cockiest sailor in Fancy Free, which...
...Confederate Memorial Day-and Mary Phagan, a pretty blonde girl of 13, dressed carefully for the occasion. She was wearing her best dress, her blue hat with the flowers and ribbons on it and her Sunday shoes and carrying a gay little parasol when she got on the downtown streetcar to go to the parade. On her way, she stopped off at the National Pencil Factory, where she was employed at 10? an hour, to pick up $1.20 in back pay. Early the next morning her body, ravished and brutally garroted with a piece of cord and a strip...
Last fall the Italian government looked around for new funds to plug a deficit in its Soccorso Invernale (Winter Help for the Needy). Already taxed were theaters, movies, authors' copyrights, railroad tickets, streetcar fares, ski lifts and admission tickets to gambling casinos and race tracks. The next step, the government decided, was to tax track bets as well. Last year Italian horseplayers bet 30 billion lire ($48,000,000), and 1% of that sum would have been ample to help the Winter Help. But a clerk in the Ministry of Interior tripped over his decimals in drafting...