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Ludmilla: French dancer and actress Ludmilla Tcherina has died in Paris at the age of 79. Tcherina, one of the leading ballet dancers of her generation, appeared in several films including The Red Shoes and The Tales Of Hoffmann. In 1960 she became the first western dancer to appear at the Bolshoi theatre in Moscow - where she performed in Adolphe Adams' ballet Giselle. She was also known for her paintings, sculptures and novels. Born Monika Tchemerzine in Paris during October 1924, she was the daughter of an exiled Russian prince and a French mother................................................................27

 

Geniuses: The mysterious, delightful, reclusive, elusive but brilliant Russian pianist Mikhail Pletnev. "He mumbled something," says the concierge, "but I'm not sure what." This is not a good start. The photographer, Barry Marsden, and I have arrived at a block of flats in central London to meet the musician for whom the adjectives enigmatic and unpredictable could have been coined.  Mikhail Pletnev, pianist, conductor, composer and famously difficult to get hold of, has bidden us for 11.30 on a Saturday morning, while he is over here from his base in Moscow, but the concierge is undecided whether we should go up or stay put.  I put Barry at his ease by telling him that, however much Pletnev dislikes giving interviews, he hates having his picture taken even more. ..............................28

Celebrities: Celebrities News:  Aretha Franklin has been hospitalized for an undisclosed ailment and is in stable condition, her publicist said Monday. The Queen of Soul, who lives in Detroit, was hospitalized Saturday, according to Gwendolyn Quinn, her New York City-based publicist...Billy Bob Thornton says he and former wife Angelina Jolie had "a great relationship" but different ideas about how they wanted to live their lives. "It was a great relationship," Thornton tells GQ magazine in its April issue. "For the time we were together, we loved each other and we did it all the way. We didn't leave any stone unturned. But we had different ideas about how we wanted to live our lives - that's all it was." The couple married in May 2000. They bragged about their sex lives in interviews...Canadian fans of the Material Girl can rest easy -- Madonna has included a stop in Toronto on her upcoming summer tour. The tour, titled The re-Invention Tour, will launch in Los Angeles on May 24 and hit Toronto on July 18. It's been over a decade since the pop diva performed in the city. But catching the show at the Air Canada Centre won't come cheap. Tickets, which go on sale Saturday, range from $49.50 to $300. Some had begun to wonder if Madonna was intentionally snubbing the country..........................................................30-31

If Regis Philbin once "saved" ABC, Donald Trump has certain bragging rights at NBC. In two months, The Apprentice has made a huge difference on Thursday nights for NBC, an evening the network was worried about because of the impending conclusion of Friends. Last week was typical: The Apprentice was No. 6 in weekly prime-time ratings, with 19.2 million viewers, despite competing against television's most popular program, CSI: Crime Scene Investigation. By running The Apprentice for a full hour and moving Will & Grace to 8:30, it enables NBC to avoid its oft-repeated problem of putting two struggling comedies... ......................................................................................32

Crawford: Hollywood legend Joan Crawford, born 100 years ago on Tuesday, was an iconic figure whose rollercoaster career on screen was mirrored by an equally turbulent life off it. The Oscar-winning actress spent 50 years in front of the camera, repeatedly falling out of favour with the public only to continually reclaim the spotlight. If her films did not get her noticed, her tumultuous love life and bitter feuds with ..........................................................32-34

Gibson's Film: A Brazilian pastor has died during a screening of Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ. Jose Geraldo Soares, a 43-year-old Presbyterian, had booked a whole cinema to view the film with his congregation. Halfway through, his wife noticed that he was no longer awake, and a doctor in the audience confirmed that he had suffered a heart attack. Friends denied that violence scenes of Christ's beating and crucifixion had caused Pastor Soares to expire. "He was calmly watching the movie next to his wife," said Amauri Costa, a family friend.......................................34-35

 

Art: My Body Is Art. It's been empty for 150 years. But this week it was announced that the vacant fourth plinth in Trafalgar Square will be occupied by a 15ft-high nude statue of a pregnant Alison Lapper. She talks to Hadley Freeman about art, disability and notions of beauty...Alison Lapper has never been on a diet. Nor does she ever feel guilty about not going to the gym, not even when she glances through women's magazines. In fact, there is not a single thing about her body that Lapper would change. "If you told me I could have any bit of plastic surgery that I wanted, I wouldn't take it because I'm just fine as I am, thank you very much," she says in a strident voice that occasionally makes her sound as if she is speaking from a platform rather than a personal viewpoint. Lapper, who was born without arms and with shortened legs as a result of the drug thalidomide, will soon be "speaking" from a very large platform indeed. After 150 years of debate, the sculpture for the fourth, hitherto empty, plinth in Trafalgar Square was chosen on Monday; the winning artwork was Marc Quinn's marble................................................................................................................................36-39

 

Royal sculpture:  Monuments or recognition To help the Mail's 'Carve Her Name With Pride' campaign along, the Guardian asked six of Britain's leading artists to design memorials to the much-loved royal. (Actually, we didn't - we just guessed what they would come up with.) So is Rachel Whiteread's brilliantly iconoclastic Queen Mother Interior sufficiently reverential? Is Antony Gormley's Angel of the South a trifle predictable? Will Christo's pristine Königinmutter-Wrap survive the pigeons? Let the people decide............................................40-42

 

Artists: Artists of the World. Bill Brandt: A Centenary Retrospective, Victoria and Albert Museum, London.The V&A will celebrate the centenary of the birth of Bill Brandt (1904-83), one of the most important photographers of modern times, with a major exhibition and an international conference. The exhibition presents 155 vintage gelatin-silver prints from the Bill Brandt Archive and is the most important Brandt exhibition for over 30  years. Boundaries: Jo Roberts, Pump House Gallery, London. Maria Chevska: Can't Wait (Letters R.L.), Andrew Mummery Gallery, London. Awaiting the visitor to her first solo show in London for almost three years are two significant developments in Maria Chevska's work. The first is the introduction of objects into the gallery space, objects that the viewer has to negotiate and which act as both an aid and a restriction  to reading her paintings. And the second is that this exhibition is suffused with one voice only, rather than the conversation between literary figures that has been a  feature of Chevska's distinctive..................50-52

     

Media: Keep on flipping and changing stations. You are not going to miss a thing! American media is a contemplative product. A blend of autocratic ideology and individualistic comprehension of events. American journalists including an avalanche of TV commentators and talk show hosts seem to know everything. Yes sir, they talk about every imaginable topic. Bill O'Reilly,  (honest and sharp!) for instance, at ease and with permissive critical approach nightly argue about an astonishing variety of delicate subjects, topics and themes, ranging from questioning the loyalty of President Bush's former senior advisors to same-sex marriage, and from global ecology to immigration and naturalization services, and from questioning the validity and honesty of a ruling by a Judge in the State of Florida to salty or sweet water on Mars. The two guys and "lovely" lady of the FoxNews morning show have answers to all your questions. Certainly, they are entertaining and easy to follow but, their conquest and analysis of world affairs, Spanish political dynamics, President Chirac's political ideology, Bin Laden's underwear, Michael Jackson lipstick and astro-physics-outer-of-space latest technologies are a little bit "too much". They know everything and they talk about everything. Nevertheless, we rush to our TV sets to watch them and amuse ourselves.......................................53-55

Cabaret: LA GOULUE: THE STRIPPER WITH A GOLDEN HEART. THE SUPER STAR OF LE MOULIN ROUGE. THE QUEEN OF MONTMARTRE CABARETS…  AND THE SADDEST SHADOW OF THE STREETS OF PARIS. She lived the two lives of Cabaret: The happy one on stage and the tragic one in her real life when her last  impoverished days ended her up  in the streets of Paris. Nee Louise Weber. She was born in Clichy, France around 1865. Her mother was a “Blanchisseuse” laundry woman. Her father, unknown. At 16, she became like her mother, a « Blanchisseuse ». To earn more money, she sold roses on rue de la Goutte d’Or in her spare time. God knows how it happened, she met France’s great, Auguste Renoir and became one of his models. Her income as a model allowed her to buy fashionable clothes suitable for places and parks where people of a certain culture and a social position mingle and gather. A more accessible and safer way of meeting “respectable” men. In one of the parks, she meets Joseph Oller, a co–owner of Le Moulin Rouge. Taken by her wit and beauty, he offered her a job as a dancer and as an “artiste” in his cabaret. Overnight, she became a sensation, the talk of the town......56-77

Chevalier-Mistinguet: Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguet. In 1918, the first world war constant bombardments forced « Le Casino de Paris » to close its doors. Around the end of the war, the Casino resumed its operations and offered a sensational show to inaugurate and celebrate its comeback. The two headliners were Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguet. It was an obvious choice. Every six months, their show was renewed and enlarged to include various acts by other Parisians singers and dancers. Volterra, the mastermind of the Casino’s attractions and shows kept the show and other artistic presentations going for 12 consecutive years. Quite a record. He produced 24 productions of superb beauty. Maurice Chevalier and Mistinguet wrote four of those memorable shows..............................................................................................................................................................78-87

Nicole: The great Nicole Martel. Some artists don’t need to pass away to become immortal. While they are still alive, the crowd, the critics, the audience, the fans and all those who are between call them “Living Legend”. In my book, this is a polite way to say “they did not die yet”! And once they do, “Legend” becomes “Immortality” and “Living Legend” becomes “Immortal”! What a very funny and lazy transition…a lazy, lengthy and agonizing waiting period to recognize them as such. In France, they are a little bit faster than in any other country in the World. If you have been admitted to “L’Academie Francaise”, you become ipso facto and instantly “Un Immortel”, meaning “Immortal”! All members of “L’Academie Francaise” are called “Les Immortels” while they are still alive, drinking French wine, reading “Tin Tin” or “Lucky Luke” and laughing at their president. French are arrogant too....What should we say? What should we call Nicole Martel? A Diva? She has already heard that one million times. Nothing original about it. How about a super Diva? It does not make any difference, five more words do not change the fabric of light in a mosaic. Shall we call Nicole Martel, THE IMMORTAL NICOLE MARTEL?? Yes!!...............................................................88-111

Israel-Palestine: Art and Politics: Leading artists of Israel and Palestine. This article reveals truth, reality, unaltered dimensions, feelings, talents and major work of leading Arab and Israeli artists living in the Near East, Middle East and spread around the world. There are a lot of pros and cons opinions expressed herewith. They are NOT ours. Those opinions were deemed indispensable to be included in our article, because they constitute the very fabric of similarities and differences in way of life, politics, social structure and substructure, artistic ideologies and accomplishments, social and artistic struggles, genius, visions of today and tomorrow. This article should prove extremely informative and educational. We have included and encompassed several articles and statements.................................................................................................................................................112-138

Celebrities: Mona Hatoum. Hatoum's use of industrial materials, along with her style, resemble the Minimalist and Conceptual work first introduced in the 1960s. The Museum of Contemporary Art in   Chicago was the site of Mona Hatoum's first major museum exhibition in the US in 1997. Her work is said to be drawn from both her Lebanese exile as well as her awareness of racial and gender issues. They possess a personal and a political side. She insists that her viewers follow their own instinctual reactions, while still enabling them to see her perspective. Hatoum's recent exhibition at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art dealt intimately with her ideas concerning the domestic and possibly female..........................................139

Hedy: Hedy Lamarr.The Glamorous  Actress and Hollywood 1940 Screen Goddess, Hedy Lamarr invented the Spread Spectrum: Torpedoes Guiding and Anti-Guiding Communication System. Who would have guessed that a glamorous movie goddess of the 1940's would create a communications system that was decades ahead of its time and is only now coming into widespread use? She was born in Vienna in 1914 as Hedwig Eva Maria Kiesler. She went to Max Reinhardt's famous acting school in Berlin during her late teens, and in 1933 she showed the world her acting skills and most of herself in the film Extase (Ecstacy), which quickly became notorious for its extensive nude scenes. The movie played in America after severe cutting, and in 1937 its leading lady went to Hollywood. Louis B. Mayer, of MGM, hired her and gave her the name Lamarr. Some people thought Hedy to be the most beautiful woman in Hollywood, but as an actress she was.................................................140-149

Caresse: Mary Phelps Jacobs. In 1913, the first modern brassiere to be awarded a patented was invented by a New York socialite named Mary Phelps Jacob. Mary had just purchased a sheer evening gown for one of her social events. At that time, the accepted undergarments were corsets, stiffened with whaleback bones and steel rods. Mary found that the "whalebone-spocked" out visibly around the plunging neckline and under the sheer fabric, so with two silk hankerchiefs and some pink ribbon, the first bra was invented. Mary's new undergarment went well with the new fashions being introduced at the time and demands from friends and family were high for the new brassiere. On November 3, 1914, she was awarded a patent for the "Backless Brassiere". Caresse Crosby was the business name Jacob used for her brassiere production. However, Jacob did not enjoy the business, so she sold the brassiere patent to the Warner Brothers Corset Company in Bridgeport, Connecticut for $1,500. ..........................................................................150-158

Hypatia: Hypatia of Alexandria is the earliest woman scientist whose life is well documented; she was also the last scientist of the Golden Age of Pericles, before enlightenment gave way to the Dark Ages. Her martyrdom has had more of an impact on the history than her inventions, although the hydroscope itself—the first laboratory instrument to measure the specific gravity of liquids—was a breakthrough. Born in Alexendria in A.D. 370, Hypatia came into a rarefied intellectual world. Her father, Theon, was a mathematician and astronomer at the Museum at Alexandria, and Hypatia was his prize pupil. She studied in Athens and Italy, and she became a lecturer and writer in the fields of mathematics, philosophy, astronomy and mechanics. Her classes were attended by students from throughout the known world, and her treatise on algebra, Arithmetica, was a thirteen-volume definitive study. Practical technology was Hypatia's main interest...159-160

Golda: Golda Meir. When the word "greatness" comes to mind, Golda Meir comes immediately to the forefront. Her commitment to her land and to her people was the paragon of human dedication. Her complete involvement, tempered with love, fired by fierce devotion, caused the world to know that she was a true mover of mountains. Though born in Kiev, Russia, she moved to Milwaukee, Wisconsin with her family in 1906. In 1915, she joined the Labor Zionist Party. In 1917, she married Morris Meyerson and they moved to Tel Aviv (then Palestine) in 1921. Later they became the proud parents of Sarah and Menachem. Eighteen years ago today (March 7, 1969), Golda Meir was nominated by.............................161-162

 

Greatness. United States Women of Greatness and Magnificent Accomplishments. America's Women Hall of Fame......163-180

 

 

 

 

Theater: George W. Bush, Tony Blair and God appear - but not Saddam Hussein. Michael White introduces a new play with music about the war on terror. It isn't widely known in the corridors of world power, no doubt for reasons of security, but later this month President Bush and Prime Minister Blair will make their vocal debut at the Birmingham Rep in a cheerful little number called "We're sending you a cluster-bomb for Jesus". Sadly, not the actual Bush and Blair, just close approximations in a singing/dancing/cursing play-with-music by the satirist Alistair Beaton and composer Richard Blackford. And whether the audience will leave the theatre grinning or crying is something the authors can't guarantee, although Beaton promises "a roller-coaster evening where you'll laugh, you'll be disturbed, and you might be very angry. As I was. Which is why I wrote it." Follow my Leader is..........................................184-186

Comedy-Satire: Alistair Beaton's new play-satire on the war on terrorism. What I did find offensive in Beaton's satire is his depiction of Americans as complete idiots. However, it is refreshing, hilarious and provocative. Refreshing, for it depicts two heads of states, Blair and Bush as half arrogant and half quasi idiots leaders with astonishing childish naivety.  Hilarious, for the characterization of the personalities and political assumptions of both leaders is sublimely ridiculous and humouristic. Provocative, for Mr. Beaton's without reservation portrays Americans as "complete idiots"...........................................................................................................................187-189

Wickstrom: THE HUMAN TRUTH ON APRIL FOOL'S DAY. The first thing that comes to my mind today is the date! Do you realize what the date is today friend? Well, that's right it happens to be April 1st - a day in which the comics in all of us play tricks on friends of ours. What do you  think I should have you write about, today? Probably what steams up my life? I'll tell you what I think my life's purpose is... it's threefold 1) To help as many people as I can to become truly happy 2) To earn a lot of money in order to build the required capital to fulfill my final goal...which is.... 3) To build and run the biggest  church this world.............................................................................................................190

April Fool: Top 100 April Fool's Day Hoaxes of All Time......................................................................................................191-221

Jocelyne:  Stars and Legends from France. Jocelyne Jocya: The immortal voice of world music. The moment she died on August 18, 2003,  the world of goodness and the cosmos of  music trembled, whipped and...the musical and vocal virtuosity was shattered on stage, on records and in the hearts of millions around the world. Her death killed me. For she was one of the most talented and brilliant singers of the century, and one of the most generous and loving human beings on the face of the earth. She was larger than life! She was a diva, a saint, a humanitarian, a celestial artist, an adventurer, a giver, a story-teller, a loving shadow and dreams of lights to millions of children, needy, oppressed, music lovers and those souls who found comfort, strength and life in her songs. She died, and part of my heart died with her.........224-237

 

Anne: Stars and Legends from the USA. Anne Kerry Ford. Broadway lights could and would shine brighter, should Ms Anne Kerry Ford perform again in New York. Any script? Any musical costumed made for this bright American diva? She excelled on the big screen. She brilliantly performed in Europe. She has been selected among the 25 most admired and well-thought artists by an international audience and readers of European magazines. She carries the torch of symphonic musical beauty. She released very well-welcomed and acclaimed CDs. She did it all with class, professionalism and originality. Broadway, perhaps Paris and London should get ready for Ms Kerry Ford. Anne is not your regular cabaret singer, for she has more to offer than a set of romantic songs for an audience in a cozy cabaret room setting. She brings to the cosmos of cabaret, a solid dramatic and traditional training and background. Actress, thinker, big stage and cinema  star,  Ms Kerry Ford adds an ultra dimension to standard cabaret repertoires. In that sense, she differs from her peers and colleagues in the business.......................238-252

 

Westbrooks: Stars and Legends from Great Britain. Kate Westbrook and Mike Westbrook. Two living Jazz and cabaret legends in London. The "Guardian" called Mr Mike Westbrook "a giant of contemporary music". There are no limits and no boundaries to the creativity, innovative talents, genius and astonishing artistic energy of Mr Mike Westbrook  and Ms Kate Westbrook. They are simply overwhelming and magical. Probably they have done and accomplished everything which could be done, imagined,  to be seen, to be moved, composed, written, designed, produced, rehearsed, created,  existed or to exist and imagine on stage, in theater, in music, in dance and performing arts.  Nothing more or less is left to do for the Westbrooks. They have done it all, from writing dozens of scripts, films, videos, motion pictures, stage plays, hundreds of musical scores, endless  musical arrangements, conducting orchestras, producing more than 30 albums, producing and directing   numerous shows, singing virtually all styles ranging from opera to jazz to painting, visual arts, writing essays, diaries, books and touring the world.  And Lord!, they did it with class and.........................................................................................................................................................253-260

Barb: Stars and Legends from Great Britain. Barb Jungr. Should we parade our Cabaret stars on a red velvet carpet, the names of Barb Jungr,   Caroline Nin,     Kate Westbrook and Michael Westbrook would appear at the top of the list. They are Great Britain's finest entertainers and singers. Ms Jungr's  career as a pop and jazz singer stretches back to the early 80s. She is a veteran of world music. To many cabaret lovers and critics, Ms Barb Jungr is "Britain's answer to Ute Lemper". To many others, Barb is " Queen of the Musical Cabaret of Britain". All lead to the same citadel: The universal shrine of music. The citadel where Ms Jungr has already secured a historical place, a throne for her laurel, legendary talent and the brightest/smartest cabaret repertoire ever delivered by a contemporary singer in Britain. Barb is powerful. Strikingly intelligent. Warmly intellectual. Passionately fashioned into music within stimulating dialogues and electrifying persona on stage. She is perfect for Cabaret. She is made for it. .....................................261-276

Elgar: Britain's first period of musical greatness spanned the Elizabethan period through the Restoration period--from the late 1500s, with composers such as Byrd, Gibbons, and Dowland, through the life of Henry Purcell (d. 1695). For virtually the next 200 years, Britain was the "Land without Music"--or at least, without any real music of its own. While there was musical life, it was entirely dominated by foreign--primarily German and Italian--musicians. Not one British composer during this period created works remotely comparable to those produced on the continent. With the appearance of Elgar, Britain at last produced a composer of international stature, and he is the first in a series of composers who created a 20th century Renaissance of British music, a series that included composers such as Vaughan Williams, Delius, Holst, Britten, Bliss, Finzi, Bax, and others. The backdrop of Elgar's life..................................................277-281

Caroline Nin: The Priestess and Diva of the Parisian Cabaret. To   understand this complex woman; singer, entertainer, philosopher, teaser,  rebel, poet, artiste and Diva, one should realize that Caroline Nin's universe is bigger than the one we live in, a world of her own,  quite inaccessible to those who are limited by factual time and space, defined by  what "regular" people  see and believe and touch if they are unable to feel. This woman's universe is intensely complex, rich and dramatically charged and inhabited by people or memories of places, stories and  people who once upon a time fashioned a world of drama, human tragedy, fantasies, extravaganza, poetry, adventures, scepter of Mata Hari, "Les Années Folles", escapades on "Les Grands Boulevards",  fatale encounters and street's melancholy on "Rue Le Pic", extravaganzas of...............................................................................................................282-292

 

Lisa Richard: Lisa Richard is a new  refreshing product and  a pulverizing breed of singers and contempo theatrical performers. She sings the old  tunes but resuscitates them. She delivers new material but preserves and passes on the torch of solid  conservational musical  excellence and revered traditional virtuosity. She lives in a crazy American city but she reaches out to universalism in music and esthetic autonomy in delivery and in communicating with multi-ethnic audiences. Thus, appealing to New Yorkers,  conservatives under the Hollywood Symphony Bowl pillars, innovative and ultra modern artists and those who are in the making. Lisa Richard is powerful, yet extremely hilarious and sweet on the inside. Sharp intelligence, productive/creative spontaneity, original quasi intimate-quasi sarcastic talent  nourished with  guts forge the trilogy of the persona of this shining and talented Diva.....................293

Lisa: FROM THE USA. Lisa Richards and Susan Egan, Two Super Duper Entertainers: The American Way! Susan Egan and Lisa Richards in Susan Egan's Cabaret dressing room/ bathroom on Broadway in 2003! (Copyright 2004 Lisa Richard) Photo, right/Photo caption: "I love this picture. We were taking publicity shots for the show Nunsense, and I posed like this as a goof. You should have seen the faces of the people driving by as they spotted this wine-drinking, smoking, mechanic nun. You can't see it in the photo, but my nails are painted bright red, too..............................294

UK Art: FROM THE UK. Rubbish and Decadence of the Modern Art in England! Outrageous art, scandalous photos and disgraceful exhibitions.....Of course, we are talking about Charles Saatchi and madness....................................................................................295

Bizarre:  FROM THE UK. The bizarre and expensive art. Britain's most outrageous paintings, photos and prints. The published, more or less reliable facts about Charles Nathan Saatchi are as follows. He was born in Baghdad in 1943, the son of a successful Jewish textile merchant. When he was four years old he came to Britain with his parents; he has lived in London almost ever since. His brother Maurice was born in the suburbs of Baghdad in 1946. They left Iraq in an exodus of 120,000 people at a time of increasing persecution of the country's ancient Jewish population. While the move to Britain was not easy, their parents managed to once again build a prosperous business, and the family lived in a large house in Highgate, north London. At school Charles did poorly; he didn't go into higher education and appears to have more or less drifted into the advertising industry, his real enthusiasms at the time including cars and poker. Saatchi was a gifted copywriter and worked with some now famous..................296-320

Egan: Susan Egan is America's sweetest, most charming, striking  and adorable mega talent on and off stage. Every time, she performs, she takes the town by storm.  It happens all the time and this enormous success was evidenced and acclaimed by her audience, the fans and the public who attended two of her most recent and  "perfect performances";  playing Sally in Cabaret and  Millie in Broadway's Thoroughly Modern Millie!  It was quite hard to catch Ms Egan before our publications deadlines. We  will try again to capture this nymph and glue her for a moment or two on the Monthly Herald Herald pages. Perhaps, the forthcoming issue. On April 1st, Susan will be singing  at...................................................................................................................................................321

WHO'S WHO: Who's Who of American Female Cabaret and Torch Singers from the 19th Century to Present. Publishers note: It is our sincere belief that the present work is the most up to date, accurate and informative “Documented Publication” on America’s Greatest Singers/Entertainers and English speaking artists worldwide from the 19^th century to present.................................................................................................................................................................322-346