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...existences. At the musical level, it moves every moment in a noble and profound andante. But at the deepest level, the picture is a poem, a mood embodied. The mood is the mood of creature sadness, the poem is a love song to all things that live, a swan song for all things that die. In an old man's elegy resounds the angelus of an age, a passing bell for all mortality...
...class girls being sold as instruments to satisfy the sexual needs of the upper class," wrote Mathematician Hyman Levy, "while at the same time, there were no upper-class girls being recruited to satisfy the sexual needs of the working class." Levy was ironically seconded by Teacher M. L. Swan: "With a few fortunate exceptions-gamekeepers and other comrades who have infiltrated the enemy's camp-we are prevented by a gigantic class conspiracy from enjoying the daughters of our rulers and employers. If the phrase 'equality of opportunity' is to be more than a figure...
Last week the suspense was scheduled to end. In Swan Lake, the two visitors brought the house down. Then, for an audience starring the President's wife, one ex-President's daughter (Margaret Truman Daniel), and one presidential also-ran (Adlai Stevenson), Hurok presented Fonteyn and Nureyev together in the U.S. premiere of Marguerite and Armand, the latest version of Camille...
...never an entrechat or a grand fouetté. Manhattan first-nighters, who sat through its half-hour length with scarcely a rippling interruption of applause, demanded 16 curtain calls, with Jacqueline Kennedy clapping energetically enough for two. Nureyev's magnetic personality demands an audience's attention. In Swan Lake, he disclosed some of his enormous technical facility, and in Marguerite, with less chance to dance, he demonstrated that he can also act. But so much of his talked-of talent is yet to be revealed that his U.S. fans still cannot judge whether Nureyev is indeed, as advertised...
Nothing very deep or subtle is explored in the play, just sex. Jupiter (Alex Hawthorne), having recently seduced Leda as a swan, gives his attention to the problem of conquering Amphitryon's wife, Alkmena (Nancy Wolff) as a man. But all the wiles and devices of the immortal lover fail to destroy what Jupiter calls Alkmena's "pathetically constant" love for her Amphitryon...