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...last-moment hitch developed in the well-laid wedding plans of Cinemactor Errol Flynn, 41, and Hollywood Dancer Patrice Wymore, 23, when a French Lutheran clergyman suddenly withdrew the use of his church. The twice-divorced groom scurried about, thought he had found another, an abandoned church in Beaulieu-sur-Mer. Other reported plans: a civil ceremony in Monaco with an army guard of honor, peasants dancing in the streets, followed by a one-day honeymoon, the shortest of Flynn's career...
Back in the days when Jean Georges Noverre, one of the grandfathers of ballet, was writing his famous Lettres sur la Danse (1760), Copenhagen's Royal Danish Ballet was just ten years old. But under a Noverre pupil named Antoine Bournonville and his son Auguste, the Danes learned so well that their company soon became one of the best in Europe. Last week Denmark's 200-year-old Royal Ballet, which now bows only to England's crack Sadler's Wells Company in Western Europe, was putting on a special 14-night summer festival. Danish balletomanes...
...Chevalier's 7,000-word translation, the phrase "as complicated as a Rube Goldberg invention" became "more complicated than existentialism." A "hoot-nanny" emerged as a corrida (i.e., bullfight). Rose's untranslatable "razzle-dazzle and razzmatazz" was altered into the equally untranslatable "plaisanter sur des plaisanteries plaisantes." Rose's laconic account of the end of a riot at his Texas Centennial Exposition ("The brawl was over") was elaborately transformed into "My savage cowboys became as well-behaved as [Paris] street urchins on the day of their First Communion...
Twilight contains just about everything that an adolescent mind could want, in cluding characters such as Lady Orabella Sax, Arethusa Lever, Captain Elias Wild-blood and Alden Galahad Paget. What's more, Author Steen lays bare the very sur face of their natures: "Superbly nude, [Dorset Flood] lounged elegantly on the window sill"; "Plump and glossy as a young calf, there was something in [Polly Bowling] that vibrated...
Inalienable Right. In Ilocos Sur Province, P.I., officials protested that the recent ban on hip-swinging dances violated "Freedom of Locomotion...