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The Ballet Theater returned to Boston last Monday night after an absence of two years to let the public see a week of good dancing again. Unlike two years ago, when this same company played to a near-empty theater, the Opera House on opening night was filled to capacity...
There were two Boston premieres in the Ballet Theater's program for Monday. The first of these was Agnes De Mille's "Fall River Legend," which is "suggested by" the story of Lizzie Borden, who "took an axe and gave her mother 40 whacks." It is an interesting theater-piece...
Miss De Mille is perhaps more generally known for her choreography in "Oklahoma!" and "Carousel," and the parts of "Fall River Legend" which seemed the best were those dealing with the townspeople, who can be alternately gossipy, jubilant, and mournful. Miss De Mille is a spontaneous humorist and her townspeople...
The other new ballet was George Balanchine's "Theme and Variations" which uses music of Tchaikowsky. It is one of those abstract jobs, with no book but with lots of opportunity for the corps de ballet and the soloists to show their stuff. The soloists were Igor Youskevitch and Maria...
World Federalism will spread to the graduate schools tonight when a new club for graduates forms at 7:30 p.m. after an address by Louis B. Sohn, LL.M. '40, lecturer on law, in the Peabody Room of Phillips Brooks House.