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...colonial treasury clerk in his own country, but his real interests were something else. When the treasury tried to muffle his shrill union talk by sending him to a post outside the country, he quit and became fulltime head of the Guinea branch of France's Confederation Generale du Travail. French officials have vivid memories of the Toure of those days. "He was impossible," says one. "Always making trouble...
...works of art, like the two portraits of Baudelaire in the exhibition, (a lithograph by Rouault and an etching by Manet), which sum up the pleasure of collecting. Perhaps motives of sentiment lie behind these choices as well as aesthetic discretion. This is perfectly legitimate. Rouault and Les Fleur du Mal strike a rich chord. It is just this sort of thing which lends collecting an added charm...
...accompaniment for the dances is drums--drumming in fact, pervades the whole evening, from the shattering "Appel du Tam-Tam" played before the curtain rises, to the helter-skelter explosion of high spirits in the final. There must be at least two hours of drumming in this show, and yet there is not a single moment of rhythmic ennui. Clearly, the producers have gone to considerable lengths to find remarkable artists, drummers whose command of technique suggests the most accomplished Western percussionists...
...black hair straggled to her shoulders, and her tight tweeds strained in odd bulges. For three weeks of rehearsal, she worked as unobtrusively as if she were the second lead's standin. But when the Du Pont Show of the Month put What Every Woman Knows on the air last week, she gave new life to the dated charm of the J. M. Barrie play. As Maggie Wylie, the homely but wise and witty Scottish lass who is the real reason behind her bartered bridegroom's success, Ireland's Siobhan (pronounced Shi-vawn) McKenna...
...Du Pont Show of the Month (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.).* If the makeup man can make Siobhan McKenna look dowdy, nothing at this late date should get in the way of J. M. Barrie's What Every Woman Knows, a well-thumbed treatise on giving a career-climbing hubby a homely leg-up; with James Donald, Martita Hunt...