Roland Petit creates the world's first detective story ballet, "The Room." Georges Simenon, whom he asked to do the libretto, wrote it in six hours this summer (first entitled "The Skin of Others"). When he saw it for the first time at a rehearsal, danced by Véronika Mlakar and Buzz Miller – two new young Czech dancers – he said: "I've already been adapted to film, radio and television, but I've never encountered my atmosphere as in this ballet. I'm at sea. It's a little like someone has added something to me."