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The issue of mixed bathing had the people of Trois-Rivires (pop. 50,000) up in arms. The twelve-year-old city by-law was clear-cut. It forbade bathing with "one or a few persons of the opposite sex," decreed that "persons of the female sex must wear a...
Last fortnight, the Bishop of Trois-Rivières, Monsignor Georges Léon Pelletier, let it be known that he viewed such talk with alarm. In a letter to the city council he came out against mixed bathing, warned that "promiscuity of the sexes in scanty costume [is] a...
Last week the Trois-Rivières Junior Chamber of Commerce denounced the ban on mixed bathing. Le Nouvelliste, ardent supporter of the church, assailed "the thoughtlessness of demoniac youth." The Knights of Columbus, the Catholic Centre, the Saint Jean Baptiste Society and the Society of Nocturnal Adoration all rallied...
For Barbara Ann Scott, one "P.B.," writing in the obscure Le Bonheur of Trois Rivières, Que., had kind words: "I am ready to believe that this young girl is a model of virtue, modesty, discretion and grace." But for Barbara Ann's clothes and capers, and for...
Jerome Robbins' Pas de Trois, a posturing satire on classical ballet done to Berlioz' thundering Damnation of Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't...