Word: 55th
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...company then offered, under Basil Langton's direction, a 55th anniversary production of Sir James Barrie's classic fable for both children and adults, Peter Pan. As Peter, who has from Maude Adams to the present always been played for some reason by a woman, Miss Harris was captivatingly pixyish. Eric Portman might have brought more bravado to the traditional double role of the Father and Captain Hook. Ellis Rabb provided an unbeatably riotous Smee, an elaboration of the Starveling he did in Midsummer Night's Dream at Stratford a year ago. The production employed the original music of John...
...last week's Vienna concert, the Philharmonia opened with a somewhat lackluster "Egmont" Overture, then launched with enthusiasm and devotion into Zoltan Kodaly's Psalmus Hungaricus, whose words, based on the 55th Psalm, were written during the 16th century Turkish rule in Hungary ("O hear the voice of my complaining/Terrors of death are fallen upon...
...first game of the 55th annual series with Yale...
...tournament. In the big game, San Francisco's incomparable Bill Russell, while lazily turning in 26 points against Iowa, spent most of his time dancing in the air like a joyous giraffe and slapping Hawkeye shots out of basket range. The outcome: the San Francisco Dons won their 55th straight victory, their second straight N.C.A.A. championship, and unblemished claim to the title of best college basketball team...
...Arden, Averell learned to shoot, swim, row. ride and race trotters (he later switched to polo because of a strange allergy to horses, which affected him when he rode behind them, but not when he rode on them). In winter the family retired to a big town house on 55th Street in Manhattan, where Averell fashionably attended Craigie School and Miss Dodson's dancing class, and became a cadet in the Knickerbocker Greys. He saw the world as a prince might see it, from his father's private railroad car, from the family's yacht and from...