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...road performances in open-air stadiums where the potential box office exceeds $10,000. (Just to be on the safe side, he also took in as business partner Y. D. Scales, a Fort Worth auto dealer, whose daughter, pert Kathryn Lee, a musicomedy dancer, wanted to be a highbrow ballerina.) Said Massine, flushed with the opening success of Highlights: "My conception of repertoire is the same as that of chamber music in relation to symphony. ... I feel I am restoring some of the basic elements of Russian ballet. . . . Today ballet has become, with big companies, a kind of musical comedy...
Dying Swan. At this point, two policemen appeared. They cornered the girl behind the first violins. Just before they led her off, she had a last moment of triumph, posing with her legs crossed and her arms wrung together like a ballerina in the final throes of the dying swan...
...also a less poetic one. In The Tempest, with its wonderful language, words speak louder than actions; not everybody in the Webster production knew how to utter them. Arnold Moss was a sonorous and commanding Prospero, Frances Heflin a sensitive Miranda. But as Ariel, Ballerina Vera Zorina let a good many speeches dwindle, and her grace was cold rather than sunlit. As Caliban, Negro Actor Canada Lee could not (like Shakespeare) make poetry of ugliness. Stressing the rather dull comedy also shattered the mood; the revolving stage was more practical than atmospheric. This generation may never see a livelier Tempest...
...similarly chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...
...party celebrating French liberation. She had sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...