Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Born Antonia Merce, in Buenos Aires, of a Castilian father and an Andalusian mother. Her father was premier danseur in the Madrid Opera ballet in which she herself made her debut...
...nudes, some, including Italian Achille Funi's The Awakening of Venus, had little to commend them. Others were sensational, like Britisher Laura Knight's baldly anatomical Dressing for the Ballet. This study was too frank to be voluptuous. Squeamish persons felt as if they had opened the wrong door. But Eileen, a seated girl in a chemise, thrilled everyone with its pliancy of shoulders, arms, tapering hands. A soft sidewise fall of light allowed Miss Dod Procter the use of tremulous chiaroscuro. She is an adept in the nuances of reflected light, a familiar phase of architectural rendering, an annoying...
...buttermilk, nibble roots and herbs, renounce money as "the root of all evil" (a line in the play). This purpose was not accomplished. Author Channing Pollock, a great showman, is not a great artist. He has tried to do a Faust, with snatches of The Adding Machine and the Ballet Mechanique. His devil is a silk-hatted Babbitt named Mr. Moneypenny, who seizes an old and whining clerk named John Jones, gives him ticker tape and a Park Avenue apartment. It soon becomes apparent that John Jones is not happy-one doubts that he could be happy under any conditions...
...Fedora, Andrea Chenier, Faust, Carmen, Cavalleri Rusticana and Pagliacci. Los Angeles has the same list without Aida and Fedora. There were many members of the Metropolitan Opera in the casts, such famed ones as Elisabeth Rethberg, Edward Johnson, Ezio Pinza, Tibbett, Jeritza, and the Pavley-Oukrainsky Ballet...
Three prompters, prim and sarcastic, told the audience how ridiculous was the plot. Half a dozen ballet dancers sat in the audience and mocked. Directors, stage managers and scene shifters scuttled about the stage, instructing the singers in their parts. Bastienne was played as a brusque queen, Bastien a flopping weakling, the old man a dolt...