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Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 54, will need all her poise to stay in the spotlight at the gala benefit in Manhattan for Washington, D.C.'s National Ballet next week. Appearing as Princess Aurora in a sequence from Sleeping Beauty, Fonteyn will be supported by a quartet of amateur ballerinas but professional scene-stealers: Film Star Paulette Goddard, 62, as the Queen, TV Panelist Arlene Francis, 65, as the Lilac Fairy, Broadway Dancer Gwen Verdon, 47, as a comical Little Red Ridinghood, and Actress Julie Newmar, 38, as the White Cat. Newmar rises to a majestic...
BERNARD WEISSBOURD, 51, lawyer turned iconoclastic developer. President of Chicago-based firm, Metropolitan Structures, which has $3.5 billion of work in progress, most of it notable for design quality. Included are new towns near Aurora, Ill., and Montreal, redevelopment in downtown Baltimore and a billion-dollar apartment-office-store complex near Chicago's Loop. Delights in challenging accepted notions. Example: favors replacing homeowners' income tax deductions for mortgage interest payments - a "regressive subsidy," he says - with direct subsidies from Washington...
Nureyev's choreography differs chiefly in its shift of emphasis from princess to prince. Other first-class productions that have been performed in Europe for the past 50 years have hinged on Princess Aurora while Prince Florimund never danced at all. In this production Nureyev's prince has half a dozen solos. They are uniformly pleasant-if unaccountably confined to traditional danse d'école figures and Nureyev executes them to glacéed perfection...
...these things are actually happening at Futan, Shanghai's biggest and most prestigious center of higher education, and now a monument to Maoism. Formerly the French missionary Aurora College, Futan, with its student body reduced from 6,500 to 1,135, is still in the throes of change...