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...pretty Svetlana Beriosova), and the girls went into low-pressure love rites. The Russian fairy tale plot darkened further-got so dark, in fact, that only the program notes could make it almost clear. A gang of leaping fiends, Tartars and scimitarists introduced a horrid wizard (mimed by Frederick Ashton), but the Firebird returned and forced the whole evil crew to dance on and on to exhaustion. Then the hunter smashed the giant egg that contained the wizard's soul and married the beautiful princess. Curtain...
Sadler's Wells revealed two other pleasing new productions last week: ¶ Choreographer Ashton's Rinaldo and Armida, in which a gallant (Somes) pursues an enchanted girl (Beriosova), braving the hazards presented by a misty forest and a jealous witch (at one point she lays him low with an osteopath's neck-snap). The couple goes into some fairly passionate courting, including one handsome lift in which she climbs to his shoulders with the agility of a mountain goat...
This time there were four ballets new to the U.S. by the company's leading Choreographer Frederick Ashton, one by rising young John Cranko. Ashton's Scènes de Ballet was danced before a De Chirico-like architectural backdrop, proved as angularly abstract as the Stravinsky score in an intricate counterpoint of shifting groups. High point was the saucy, mincing solo of young ballerina Nadia Nerina, dancing like a flirtatious marionette to the lilting wail of an oboe...
Charles C. Beebe (captain); Peter A. A. Berle; John R. Carpenter; Elmer H. Close; Ashton R. Ballet; Karim A. Khan; Lawrence R. Marwill; James E. Murley '57 (manager...
...winning Crimson crew scored 22 points by sweeping both firsts in the "A" division and taking two thirds in the "B" events. Ashton Langworthy and Addison Closson skippered the winning class "A" crafts, and Phil Tierney and Tom Townsend piloted the third-place "B" entrants. M.I.T. finished close behind the winners with 19 points, Radcliffe and Northeastern University tied for third place, and Boston College took fourth...