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7777T 4 Reporting on family, cultural environment, and toDAY'i lifestyles June 24, 1972 51 iiii mm" thenk mr opinion. on dance Superlatives Fail Fonteyn Italian Team In Command At Olympiad Tlmii Wirt Sirvlctt MIAMI BEACH The Italian Blue Team headed confidently for its third straight World Bridge Team Olympiad title here Friday aided by over-optimistic bidding by its American opponents. After 32 deals of 88-board match, Italy's Blue Team had outscored the U.S. Aces 70 to 21 in International Match Points. The tournament ends today.

The Italians made hardly an error, while the Aces, the U.S. entry, suffered from slam misjudgments. Jim Jacoby and Robert Wolff, usually the steadiest bidders on the U.S. team, failed in three slam contracts: one poor, one almost hopeless, and one completely hopeless. The Italian lead would have been cut by 20 international Match Points if Jacoby had succeeded in making a difficult double game contract.

The only substantial American gain occurred when Giorgio Belladonna and Walter Avarelll for Italy stayed out of a borderline game contract that was bid and made by Bob Goldman and Mike Lawrence. In the semifinal round Thursday, the Aces beat Canada by 118 points, and Italy beat France by 90 points. A lead-directing double misfired and helped the Aces over- I whelm Canada in the semifinal Thursday night. FOB ITALY, AVARELLI, Belladonna, Pietro Forquet and Benito Garozza played virtually flawlessly in the first seg in Vvss 1 I i t74 I "4 MPs AV ii i hmsmmmm mm 4x4iMmimm m. 4m.

less the choreographic achievement, for fear of breaking the spell. THIS IS artistry. This is a true communication through art. This is what every dancer or musician hopes to accomplish. This is what makes Fonteyn exceptional.

She has it all. There were six other dancers on the program, which featured 10 pas de deux, and dancing that ranged from acceptable to exciting. Interesting but inconsistent might best describe the remainder of the evening. On the plus side Luis Fuente's brilliant windmill air turns the grace, polish and fluiet control of Finland's Soili Arvola and Leo Ahonen creative and challenging contemporary athleticism and acrobatics of San Francisco's Grace Doty and Juliu Horvath one-hand lifts by Fuente, supporting the very pretty Annette av Paul (both from Washington's National Ballet) high in the air with one hand first from her midriff, later her back exciting jetes (leaps) of Fuente and Ahonen. On the debit side there were some slippery lifts by over-tempestuous males, giving ballerinas an added problem in maintaining balance.

But most disappointing was the orchestra, seldom giving the full musical support and sound that dance must have. ONLY A Fonteyn can overcome this lack, able to dance with the full passion and power that make the music secondary to the dance. She can disprove the scene from the ballet movie, "The Red when the ballet, master told his nervous ballerina 'Remember, the music is the Following a repeat performance of Ballet Spectacular Gala tonight in Miami, the entire company will fly to Reykjavik, Iceland, for performances June 27 and 28 under the sponsorship of the International Series of Miami. Ballet Spectacular Gala, sponsored by International Series of Miami, Municipal Auditorium, Orlando. Thursday, June 22, 1972, 8:30 p.m.

Ten pas de deux with Dame Margot Fonteyn and Kari Musil; Soili Arvola and Leo Ahonen; Grace Doty and Juliu Horvath; Annette ay Paul and Luis Fuente. Orchestra conducted by Ottavio de Rosa. Program Giselle, Spring Waters, Don Quixote, Swan Lake, Opus II, Nutcracker, Le Corsairs, Paradox, La Favorlta, Romeo and Juliet. By MARY NIC SHENK Timti Music Writer ORLANDO If no one else had been onstage all evening, and if tickets had cost as much as $20, it would have been worth the drive here and any expense to see the beautiful Margot Fonteyn dance. Britain's Dame Margot is becoming legendary, not merely because she is 53 and still dancing with the control and confidence of a younger woman not to mention an extraordinary body and legs, but also because she has that exceptional warmth and personality which give full depth to any role she performs whether it's your peasant girl, a swan or a lover.

She epitomizes a prima ballerina. It would be difficult to find any more expressive role than the two which Miss Fonteyn interpreted in Thursday night's Ballet Spectacular Gala here at the Municipal Auditorium. First she was the white swan from the ever-popular "Swan Lake," then Juliet in "Romeo and Juliet." EACH TIME she danced you took her partner (Karl Musil of Austria) for granted, although he was excellent and gave her fine support. And you forgot the weakness of the small pit orchestra, the failure of the music to surge with the same passion (especially in Berlioz's "Romeo and Juliet" score) that the lithe and lovely MisS Fonteyn revealed in her mature yet youthful love of Romeo, (The ballet movie of Romeo and Juliet by Miss Fonteyn and Rudolph Nureyev several years ago was the most totally expressive presentation of the Shakespeare classic I had ever seen or heard in any art form, including theatre and music, although not a word was spoken). Miss Fonteyn is an actress, an important ingredient often missing in lesser talents.

With her, dancing becomes a vehicle rather than the end result, and even spectacular steps, balance and lifts never interfere with the story line, the emotion, the feeling. You simply cannot applaud no matter how exciting or effort ment. Sitting out the first 16 deals were Massimo D'Alelio and Camillo Pabis Ticci, members of the famed Blue team that has won 12 world championships since 1957. Robert Hamman, Paul Soloway, Jacoby and Wolff played the first segment of the finals for the U.S. The remaining Aces are Goldman and Lawrence.

The Dallas-based team is the current world champion, having won two successive titles since the Blue team went into temporary retirement. In the playoff for third place, Canada led France 45 IMP to 24 after one quarter of the 64-deal match. THE OLYMPIAD, which takes place every fourth year, is a contest among all of the bridge-playing nations of the world. Thirty-nine countries sent teams to the Miami Olympiad. The only head-to-head confrontation between the Aces and the Blue team took place last December in a exhibition match for a $15,000 cash prize in Las Vegas.

The Blue Team won with-out difficulty. The qualifying round Thursday night ended in the most exciting possible way. The events at two tables on the diagramed deal decided their fates everything hinged on one hand at the end of 12 days of concentrated effort. If this deal had not been played, or had produced no swings, the crucial standings would have been: third, Taiwan, 536; fourth, Canada, 535, and fifth, France, 531. When Canada played the Philippines, there was no swing, but it would not have mattered if there had been.

Canada was sure of maximum victory points and a final score of 535. Marmot Fontetn, dancer extraordinaire, perforins in "Swan Lake" and "Romeo and Juliet" in the Ballet Spectacular Gala. li Poitier Western Is Appealing prescott on film cation about 1 i a's Wonderful Waterways. We don't need it any more. State, 687 Central, "Buck and the Preacher," screenplay by Ernest Kinoy from a story by Ernest Kinoy and Drake Walker, directed by Sidney Poitier.

The cast: Sidney Poitier, Harry Belafonte, Ruby Dee, Cameron Mitchell, Nita Talbot, Clarence Muse and others. Rated PG. action western that often builds a sweaty gun-battle tension and interest under Poitier's skillful direction. It is one of the better of the black westerns helping to balance the many myths from that era by showing the white man's hatred to be the ugly, destructive side of humanity that it was. A note about the program at the State: Might it be suggested that the time has come for that theatre to retire its promotional short subject for Weeki Wachi and Silver Springs? It has played before every showing there, i seems, forever.

One can almost hear a groan coming from the movie-goers who frequent the place. Maybe Minnesota could use a little edu By J. OLIVER PRESCOTT Tlmei Drama Critic "Buck and the Preacher" at the State may not be a totally accurate account of the lives of blacks in the post civil War West, but who cares? No one ever worried about facts in westerns anyway, and Sidney Poitier's first attempt at directing is so appealing that the viewer simply doesn't take the time to consider all the personal pacts and friendship between Indians and blacks or to wonder if it is all fact or not. Poitier does far more directing in the film than acting. He wears a stony countenance for most of the scenes and relies on his double-barreled, sawed-off shotguns Mini-Review us- The symbols used above indicate there is violence and one fleeting glimpse of a popular calypso singer's derriere.

to perform the theatrics. He is steady and surefooted as always, but this script seems too easy for him and he never appears to be really trying. Harry Belafonte, on the other hand, tries very hard. Quite often he succeeds in his amusing role as the oily-minded preacher of the title. His acting style is considerably broader than anyone else's in the picture, making him appear at times to be the only one doing any serious work.

SERIOUS WORK is one thing that this screenplay does not require. It is the one element of the production that needs help, for it only scratches the surface of the blacks' difficulties and involvements in the West. And it gives that excellent actress Ruby Dee not much more to do than cry. (Even then she nearly steals the movie with one very moving interpretation of a freedom speech.) 'Buck and the Preacher" is, nonetheless, an exciting i fill ill Sidnei Poitier hrandislies sawed-off shotguns in "Buck and the 1 Ann Landers Death Rarely Arrives Well-Timed the car to make sure I didn't drive anywhere else. He is becoming increasingly suspicious for no reason.

I once read someplace that this is a sign of mental illness. Is it? If so, should I stop going to the study group to please him? Please advise me. E.S.A. DEAR E.S.A. The symptoms you describe sound as if your husband might mentally ill.

Urge him to go for an evaluation. In the meantime, if you give up the study group it will not help him, so continue and enjoy yourself. Wash Day Blues DEAR ANN LANDERS: I His eyesight went bad and he developed crippling arthritis. By the time he was 80 he was confined to a wheelchair, almost blind, his memory was gone, most of his cronies had died and he was a lonely and sick old man a pathetic figure who was a drain on his only daughter's energy and financial resources. The last 15 years of his life were downhill all the way.

Recalling the old man made me feel less sad about my 56-year-old friend. There is something to be said for leaving the stage amid applause and cheers. I hope I'm lucky enough to die with my boots on. Kentucky Musings DEAR K.M.: Wouldn't it be in, but not very often. The problem is that I have signed up for a study group which meets at our church once a week from 8:00 till 10:00 p.m.

My husband refused to join so I go with my sister-in-law. I've always known that I'm not very pretty. I'm presentable. Period. No man would look at me twice.

My husband insists that every man in town wants me, including the study group leader who is our pastor. When I come home from these study group meetings he gives me the third degree although he knows I went with my sister-in-law and came home with her. He also checks the speedometer on DEAR ANN LANDERS: I just came from the funeral of a good friend. He was only 56 at the peak of his career, a wonderful guy, beautiful family, the most attractive man in any group. There were many sad-eyed people at the service, saying very little to one another.

But the unspoken message was clear: "What a tragedy that this productive, successful, delightful fellow was cut down in the prime of life." On the way home I remembered another funeral one I attended a few months ago. The man was 90. He had once been a prominent person in the community useful, productive, successful and loved by all. He retired at about 75. wonderful if your old friend could have given his 15 years to your young friend? But life doesn't work that way and we must live out the years the good Lord gives us.

Thanks for a provocative letter. Impending Illness DEAR ANN LANDERS: I am 33 years old, have been married for eight years and have two small children. My husband is ten years my senior a quiet man, a good provider who does not like people. Our social life consists of his brother and his wife and a cousin he was raised with. Occasionally he will let me invite a neighbor couple have four children under seven years of age.

I seem to have enough laundry every day for at least one load sometimes two. For some reason this bothers my husband. He says his mother used to wash once a week and she had five kids. I keep telling him I'd rather do one or two loads a day than kill myself on Mondays. What do you say, Ann? Missouri Mule (His name for me.) DEAR If you want to wash every day what's it to him? I presume you aren't telling him how to run his work day and he should not be telling you how to run yours..