The Toes Have It

P: Edinburgh's famed International Festival of Music and Drama opened for its 21-day run last week with a schedule of no less than 170 events by eight orchestras seven choruses, six chamber orchestras' and quartets, one ballet, one opera and five dramatic companies. First week's highlight was the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of Firebird, starring brilliant Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, who in the title role seemed as quick as an imp out ot hell, as fluttery as a butterfly.

P: In London Sadler's Wells Theatre Ballet (a kind of junior relative and farm club of the famed old company) went on strike for higher pay, canceling the company's two-week London run this month. Management came through with "merit raises" from $2.80 to $5.60 weekly, which puts the average corps member in a slightly better financial position than bus conductors and typists (about $20 weekly) but not quite up to the average of a West End chorine (about $28).

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