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...various mornings-after between 1908 and 1920, Amedeo Modigliani carved and painted in Paris a few hundred works of purity, warmth and glamour. Almost all the pictures represented people he loved, but with rubicund flesh, swan necks outstretched, ski-jump noses and sightless, slanting eyes. They were men and women molded to a very private vision of how humans ought to look, a vision that only Modigliani's power as a designer could put across and make seem beautiful. All his control was reserved for art; in life he had none...
Those leaving the play were Stephen H. Randall '60, Mark J. Mirsky '61, James M. Swan '59, Nathan C. Douthit '60, and Roger A. Moldovan...
...title role in the play, which will be given in two months, went to Doris Allen 1G. Other leads are Robert D. Gamble '60, Edith Iselin '61, Gerald M. Medearis '60, David H. Mills 1G, Mark J. Mirsky '61, Roger A. Moldovan '59, Stephen H. Randall '60, James M. Swan '59, and Jacqueline Tabachnick...
Having concentrated mainly on modern plays, the HTG performed a noble parting gesture to the cause of new drama just before the founding members' graduation in 1953. As its swan song, the Group decided to give the premiere of The General, written by Robert H. Chapman, associate professor of English. Directed by the author, the performance was excellent. But the play was weak, and the production lost $3000 (though a New York manager picked up the tab). Nevertheless, all agreed that the HTG could take pride in its exit as well as its previous record...
...Pouch. As soon as news of the fire reached London, the Royal Ballet's Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn sent her own Black Swan costume winging to Ballet Theatre's Prima Ballerina Nora Kaye. Covent Garden set 15 girls apressing a pile of old Sylphides costumes. The British Festival Ballet's Anton Dolin, a Ballet Theatre alumnus, sent whatever odds and ends he could spare. Ballet Theatre's Erik Bruhn phoned fellow Danes in Copenhagen, who rushed to pack Sylphides and Graduation Ball trappings (the vacationing director had to be run to ground for an O.K.). French...