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Just when a playgoer wishes he could do the same, Vivien Leigh divertingly peps up the proceedings. She shimmies a madcap Charleston that ought to be recorded on a film strip of memorable moments from forgettable musicals. She torch-sings an affecting lament for lost first love (I Know the Feeling) in a bistro baritone that huskily recalls early Marlene Dietrich. In party scenes, she alone does not resemble a fugitive from a Vat 69 ad. Although her eyes seem candlelit with some private poetry of grief, she plays the regal scamp all evening, ornamenting with a playfully aristocratic touch...
...pushing through the assembled throng to present a gift to the new King, jostled a Christian. "Assassins," cried the Christian, and the mob turned savagely on the hated and distrusted Jewish delegation. Beating, kicking and slashing, the Christians surged through the Jewish quarter of London putting the torch to its tinderbox houses. From the capital, the flames of anti-Semitism fanned northward into Cambridge, Norwich, Lincoln, and finally to the city of York, where in an orgy of bloodletting the city's Jewish population was systematically massacred during its Passover celebration...
Once she sang Stormy Weather, it never quite sounded right coming from anyone else. But after 28 years of carrying a smoky torch from Harlem to Hollywood, Lena Home, still sultry at 45, finds the flame burning lower. Soon after she finishes her six-week run at Manhattan's Waldorf-Astoria, Lena says she will give up nightclub singing altogether. "It's stifling to keep singing these silly boy-girl songs all your life. All the drama has moved from Broadway to Mississippi. Why be trivial in times like these?" Her idea: "Match bitternesses" with Essayist James Baldwin...
...Lippold has produced as elegant a body of work as any artist that ever wielded a welding torch. The images that inspire him are wholly modern-"suspension bridges, TV antennas, steel skyscrapers. Our faith is in space, energy, communications, not in pyramids and cathedrals." For an age that has successfully defied the law of gravity, the great preoccupation, as Lippold sees it, is space-not only the getting of things off the ground, but also the many ways of opening things up, from atomic fission to psychoanalysis. "In the 20th century," he has said, "we do not look at things...
Died. Carl Diem. 80, scholarly German sportsman whose love of the classics led him to revive the ancient Greek tradition of relaying a torch from Mount Olympus to the far-flung sites of the Olympic games, beginning with 1936's XI Olympiad in Berlin, where he also successfully resisted Nazi efforts to bar Jewish athletes; of a stroke; in Cologne...