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...acting. Denholm Elliott plays two parts well--twins of opposite temperament, living in Auvergne, France, in 1912. Frederic, who has all the humanity that his brother Hugo lacks, is in love with a beautiful young heiress, but the heiress loves Hugo. Hugo brings a poor young ballerina to a ball to distract his twin from the heiress, and her presence there gives the plot much of the flavor of Shaw's "Pygmalion." Neva Patterson is not only gorgeous as the heiress, but she plays the part with splendid clairty and effectiveness. Stella Andrews makes the ballrina a gentle, sympathetic personality...
...Wells Ballet production of Swan Lake in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium last week, and wrote: "From the muffled whispers in the row behind me, I gathered that four elderly ladies, sitting together, were experts on the whole performance. They chatted knowingly about Ninette de Valois' discovery of Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, discussed the merits of Karsavina, Pavlova, Markova, noted the fact that Danseur Michael Somes had spent four years in the British army during the war. During the intermission, I turned round, curious to see these well-informed critics. They looked as if they might have been schoolteachers...
...Angeles jury listened to British Ballerina Brenda Julier's charges that Cinemactor Sabu ("Elephant Boy") Dastagir, 26, was the father of her two-year-old daughter, heard the defense sum up: "Sabu is not an ordinary movie star, not an ordinary person. He's a very lovable boy [but] his interest in life is animals." The jury voted 9 to 3 to clear Sabu...
After bowing through innumerable curtain calls, Sadler's Wells Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn hurried backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House to accept the greetings of British delegate to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb. Convinced that her countryman's superlative performance at Lake Success deserved something special too, the dancer personally fitted a dark red rose into Sir Gladwyn's lapel...
...back too soon." She had impressive evidence to the contrary. When the golden curtain at the Met fell on the ballet's brilliant opening-night performance of Swan Lake this week, the packed house and the critics seemed unanimous. Sadler's Wells with its faun-eyed Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, its crack corps de ballet and its handsome staging, was every bit as good as remembered...