Word: ballerinas
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Died. Helen Tamiris, 64, dancer and choreographer who was trained as a classical ballerina with the Metropolitan Opera Ballet in the 1920s, but soon joined with Martha Graham and other rebels to pioneer modern American dance, later choreographed such Broadway hits as Up in Central Park, Annie Get Your Gun and Fanny; of cancer; in Manhattan...
...Once Newman has his formula, Torn Curtain becomes blatant chase melodrama. There is no more characterization and the emphasis switches from Newman and Andrews to the supporting characters involved in the escape from East Berlin: the leader of the Resistance bus, a Polish ex-countess with problems, a villainous ballerina...
...Metropolitan Opera House is destined for the wrecker's ball in May-that is, if it lasts that long. Last week the visiting Bolshoi Ballet practically tore down the house all by itself. Most of the acclaim was lavished on the Bolshoi's wing-footed Prima Ballerina Maya Plisetskaya. On opening night she danced the dual role of Odette-Odile in Swan Lake, and on the next night performed in the U.S. première of Petipa's Don Quixote-altogether a feat that is roughly comparable to Sandy Koufax pitching both ends of a doubleheader...
WALT DISNEY'S WONDERFUL WORLD OF COLOR (NBC, 7:30-8:30 p.m.). Part 1 of "Ballerina," a Disneyized drama about a girl who wants to dance, filmed in Denmark with the Royal Danish Ballet...
...enjoyed trouncing countesses at bridge and Prime Ministers at lunch-table debates. He became a leader of the Bloomsbury set of avant-garde writers and painters, including Virginia and Leonard Woolf, Lytton Strachey and E. M. Forster. At a party at the Sitwells, he met Lydia Lopokova, a ballerina of the Diaghilev Russian ballet. She was blonde and buxom; he was frail and stoop-shouldered, with watery blue eyes. She chucked her career to marry him. His only regret in life, said Keynes shortly before his death of a heart attack, was that he had not drunk more champagne...