Word: allegra
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Playhouse 90 (CBS, 9:30-11 p.m.). Tchaikovsky's delightful Christmas ballet, The Nutcracker, as staged by famed Choreographer George Balanchine. Along with 40 children, the dancers include 55 adult members of the New York City Ballet, led by Soloists Diana Adams and Allegra Kent. For viewers who need words as well, Actress June Lockhart narrates live and in color...
...movement called The Unanswered Question, was that supposed to be funny? That pretty girl in the tight, white costume, Allegra Kent-those men were twisting and bending her all over the place, back dives and everything, all in slow motion, and her feet never even touched the floor. This was ballet...
...evaluate the ballet, although they paid their respects to distinguished Composer Ives (an insurance broker who pioneered polytonal music in the U.S. in his spare time, died this year at 79). But the Daily News's Douglas Watt found something positive to report about the ballet in Allegra Kent's athletic performance. It soon became apparent, he wrote after watching her costume pull tighter, that she had "one of the cutest behinds in the company...
Practical Payment. It was Merola's personal taste and his astute judgment of his audiences that brought to the San Francisco stage such rarities as Mascagni's L'Amico Fritz, Vittadini's Anima Allegra and Giordano's La Cena delle Beffe. It was also his doing that a good many famed singers made their U.S. opera bows in San Francisco, e.g., Italian Soprano Renata Tebaldi, Greek Contralto Elena Nikolaidi, Italian Tenor Mario Del Monaco. Some Merola discoveries resulted from his travels. Others were noted by diligent San Franciscans who are glad to spend as much...
...kitchenette such as might have served a young couple beginning married life modestly in 1912. The living room is furnished in a combination of advanced geometric shapes and Chinese prints; there are some books, a head of Bucky sculptured in chromium, and a photograph of his beautiful daughter, Allegra. Mrs. Fuller, as befits the wife of a man concerned almost exclusively with the future, is apt to murmur "How nice, darling," in answer to almost any revelation from her husband. Once when he was deep in numerology, he conducted a marital quarrel entirely in digits. "He was terribly...