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...people who came to Manhattan's conservative, brown-walled Knoedler gallery last week brought their poodles with them. The women wore full-length minks, the men wore grey ties to match grey suits. They babbled in twelve languages. It was the kind of crowd that Salvador Dali likes best, and there was the Spanish surrealist, who is now 59, in all his gaudy glory. His well-beeswaxed mustachios are a little shorter than they were. But his habitual gilt vest still glittered as he brandished his enameled cane and explained in cryptic Franglais the 30 new works that...
Opium of the Muses. Writing the first full-length biography of Apollinaire by an American, Francophile Francis Steegmuller has considerable trouble trying to find the real man in the middle. His carefully contrived book is likely to please best only those readers who know least about Apollinaire, but who are delighted to dip into a nicely, often spicily, written story about a fin de siècle Villon who smoked opium, palled around with Picasso, Matisse and Braque and (in 1911) got arrested for stealing the Mona Lisa...
Daniel Seltzer, acting director of the Loeb, announced yesterday the formation of a "repertory company" of 130 to 140 students which will combine lectures and discussions with normal rehearsals. The company's program, which will begin carly this December, will culminate in full-length productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Julius Caesar, and concert reading of Marlowe's Tamburlaine, the Jew of Malta, Edward II, and Dr. Faustus...
...than one film to go on. He made 40 documentaries before Trumpets; many of them are excellent. And his second feature film (The Fiancés), shown at the New York Film Festival, proved to be a masterly examination of an old Italian tradition: the long engagement. In both full-length pictures, Olmi's art is clearly the art of a fine documentarist, an art that tries to be more like life than life itself. He is a social realist without a social program, a poet of the commonplace...
Then Jackie, looking pleased, appeared in the White House rose garden in a full-length leopard skin coat despite the warm afternoon. "He gave it to me," Jackie explained to the President, with a nod toward the Emperor. "I was wondering why you had it on in the garden," replied Jack...