Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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When Hollywood spins this yarn, it frequently abandons all pretense at reality. The stylized characters may lack conviction, but they have the gossamer look of dreamlike figures in a ballet. The British, trying in this movie to mix glamor with small, telling touches of reality, have missed out on both. The failure is particularly glaring because a number of highly skilled hands were involved in it. The plot was based on an H. G. Wells novel, The Passionate Friends. The screenplay was written by a topnotch storyteller, Eric Ambler (Journey into Fear, A Coffin for Dimitrios). The film...
...Weidman was awarded a Guggenheim fellowship, with which he created the ballet "Fables for Our Times." It has been produced on Broadway, at New York City's Golden Anniversary celebration, and on television...
...Symphony (Sat. 6:30 p.m., NBC). Handel's Water Music, Schubert's Fifth Symphony, Verdi's ballet music for Otello, waltzes from Richard Strauss's Der Rosenkavalier. Conductor: Erich Leinsdorf...
...rard had only to ask, with an archbishop's solemnity, "Isn't pink a lovely color?" to send designers running to their shelves. He turned out a stream of ideas for ballet, stage and screen, designed the sets and costumes for such notable numbers as The Madwoman of Chaillot (TIME...
...Impresario Sol Hurok's secretary asked her to meet another of Hurok's clients, she snorted "A musician? Bah! They're all such egotists." Top-rank, young (29) Violinist Isaac Stern felt the same way about ballerinas, even though he had never paid much attention to ballet, had only seen a part of Les Sylphides once when Hurok had dragged him along. Nora and Isaac, married in November, now think there are exceptions...