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...William Ashton Tucker, of New York and Bozman, Md., started as a clerk with the J. Henry Schroder Banking Corp. in 1924, is now a vice president. Married, one daughter. He's not sure which way he will vote...
...Casse Noisette (the revised Nutcracker Suite) the dancers' spirit combines with magnificent costuming to create a delightful fairyland. As originally choreographed by Ivanov, this ballet was rather pointless and uninspiring. Frederick Ashton's revision retains the more colorful scenes, includes a pas de deux, and makes the myth more enjoyable. The finale of Tchaikowsky's Suite, however, assigns too much force to the Kingdom of Ice scene, causing Pauline Harrop and Robert Lunnon to put excessive power into their gestures. A necessary and remarkable scenery change to the Kingdom of Sweets also demands awkward pushing motions...
...ballet last week, Lincoln Kirstein, general director of the New York City Ballet, came out of the wings and made a little hands-across-the-sea speech. Picnic at Tintagel, he explained, is something very special. It is not only an all-English affair, with choreography by Frederick Ashton of Sadler's Wells, scenery and costumes by Cecil Beaton and music by Sir Arnold Bax. It might even be called "the first fruits of the new Elizabethan...
...sampling, the new age proved to have a strong flavor of the past: Choreographer Ashton chose as his subject the legend of Tristram and Iseult. But he gave it a twist, and the audience found it all fresh and pleasant...
...Ashton produced little that was new in ballet movement. But he proved again how well he can handle character, mime and storytelling. For an audience whose principal fare is George Balanchine's classical abstractions, Ashton's little trip to Tintagel made a picnic indeed...