Word: ballerina
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...picked as the only successful candidate in a group of 15 auditioning for the Sadler's Wells ballet school last week, Heller, nine-year-old daughter of Mary Martin, announced that her new idol was Moira Shearer. Furthermore, she said, "I want to be the greatest ballerina in the world. I don't want to sing and act like my mother...
...Ballerina Hayden's violent wanton was a triumph; Hugh Laing played the mandarin with implacable simplicity. Without Bartok's superb score, Mandarin might have been merely a mediocre and rather crass affair, but the crashing, nervous music had kept the emotional pitch high and tight. As a result, the audience was too preoccupied to worry much about a few tag ends of murky symbolism that Choreographer Todd Bolender had worked in, e.g., a blind girl who wanders fitfully about the stage for most of the final scene...
...Patricia Bowman Show (Sat., 6:45 p.m., CBS-TV), is a fast-paced series of song & dance turns, mercifully free from television's usual determined chatter. Ballerina Bowman, who dances to such popular tunes as Over the Rainbow, is usually left too breathless by her own performance to do much more as M.C. than announce the name of the next act, e.g., a smooth vocal quartet called The Pastels. The closing commercial was as original as anything on the show: a woman's restless legs were propped against a wall while her voice described over the telephone...
...cheerfully muddled as the setting. The "spirit of Aladdin's lamp," a hefty chorine, turns Aladdin into a white spitz dog, which pops out of a passing boat. As the star attraction, four water maidens push a water-borne platform on which a trim, silver-skirted ballerina does a lotus dance. The whole thing ends with singers diving off the stage into the river, and with blubbery "eunuchs" being tossed out of boats. The Rhine takes it all with hardly a murmur...
That was a stopper. The artists, including Ballerina Galina Ulanova and Violinist David Oistrakh, packed their belongings and took a train in the direction of Moscow. Snarled Rome's Red L'Unita: "The offense to the Soviet artists is an outrage to culture." Said one departing musician: "The Italian government is very uneducated...