Humbert was the most beautiful boy in the town.He had blue eyes and golden curls.He was very beautiful, but he was nasty.He liked putting rats in the beds of his sisters.The little girls cried.One day, Rose, his sister, put a crocodile in his bed.“AI” yelled Humbert, “I’m afraid there’s a crocodile in my bed!”But Humbert was so beautiful the crocodile gave him an agreeable smile. Humbert and the crocodile had become friends.The child was even nastier than he was before because he could go everywhere with the crocodile. Leonora CarringtonPAINTED IN THE 1950S on the walls of her sons’ bedroom and
July 13, 2021
Allegra Fuller Snyder, former chair of UCLA’s dance department, and former director of the world arts and cultures interdisciplinary program (merged in 1995 to create the UCLA Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance), died Sunday, July 11. She was 93.
Snyder’s research areas included performance dance, dance ethnology, dance therapy, and film as a method of preserving and documenting dance.
An early advocate of dance preservation on film for use in education, Snyder produced historical films about Mary Wigman and about Baroque dance, and a performance dance film about Margalit Oved Marshall. Her husband, film documentarian Robert Snyder, cooperated with her in the making of an ethnographic film about the Philippine dance troupe Bayanihan. She was a key consultant on “Dancing” for Thirteen WNET.