Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...malevolence of her features as for the brilliance and grace of her dancing. Since Miss Kaye is one of the country's foremost interpretive dancers, however, it's inexplicable why Jerome Robbins has her call out lines like "I need you" in the middle of a rather pretentious ballet scene. Another highly gifted performer, Maria Karnilova is a torrid Latin in Esther, an energetic vulgarity which set two priests next to me muttering about sin on the American stage...
...Bernhardt and Duse tradition. She has emptied her life of everything except the theater. While other little girls learned about life by playing, she was learning her trade by working at it. She still works at it-and long past union hours. To improve her carriage, she studies ballet. To improve her speaking voice, she studies singing. To improve her actress' understanding, she reads endlessly, from Euripides to Shaw...
...Cheesecake. Hollywood and Claire never got beyond nodding acquaintance. Although the ballet close-ups from Limelight show that she has an attractive figure and lovely legs, she refused to pose for cheesecake pictures ("I'm not supposed to be Betty Grable"). She gives her measurements as 5 ft. 3, 112 Ibs. Pressed for further details, she cries in a fury: "What has that to do with acting...
...Like most Londoners, she queues up to take the bus to her job, eats in a small cafe across the street from the Old Vic, and is rarely seen in the Caprice or other flossy restaurants. In her free time she goes to the theater or the ballet, and is reading her way through Dostoevsky, George Moore, the Brontes and Jane Austen. She likes to forage among the stalls of the Caledonian Market for inexpensive antiques, which she gives away for Christmas presents. She also likes to shop for clothes. "I don't buy any. I just look...
...York, but his wife and the company's leading lady, Jan Farrand, had stayed to finish the last play. Jerry Kilty, a leading actor, was in London, playing with the Old Vic. Robert Fletcher, who did costumes and also acted, was with the New York City Center Ballet, and Robert O'Hearn was with the Sadler Wells Company. Many of the other Brattle alumni had also attached themselves to bigger companies. Jack Kerr and Michael Wager were rehearing "Bernadine," and Fred Gwynne was playing in "Mrs. McThing...