Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Next evening, continued the traveler, Chancellor Leopold Figl "had a surprise for us, and the surprise was a performance by the ... Children's Ballet [of the Vienna Opera]. These little girls . . . put on a most charming and delightful ballet, which was beautifully done...
...hurry to flash the Dempsey punch on U.S. keyboards. Said Leon Fleisher, who has been playing quietly in Europe for two years: "Music in America is becoming a rat race. What all the towns . . . want these days on one program is a team of four pianos, a fiddler, a ballet dancer, and a juggler...
...Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong as a fight trainer playing a trained trumpet almost make this little New Orleans melodrama worth the trouble. Also involved in the proceedings: a cocky prizefighter (Ralph Meeker) who quits the ring because of a mental block, but then proves himself a hero in Korea; a ballet dancer (Leslie Caron) who hoofs in a honky-tonk to support her blind father (Kurt Kasznar). Pretty Leslie (An American in Paris) Caron, playing a Belgian girl in America, is on her toes in a couple of dance numbers, but is otherwise miscast. Satchmo and Trombonist Jack Teagarden contribute...
...council simply funnels state funds to such established groups as London's Covent Garden Opera, Sadler's Wells Ballet and Old Vic, contributes to the support of ma jor symphony orchestras, etc. But art is a different matter. Instead of handing its money to, say, the Royal Academy, the council has concentrated on organizing its own exhibitions, and on buying works of art for its own collection...
...model British Broadcasting Corp. announcer, specializing in cricket and theater commentary. Then, in 1948, he started a show called Let's Go Somewhere and, microphone in hand, carried his thrilled listeners through a wall of barrels on a motorcycle going 40 m.p.h. or swung in an aerial ballet 90 feet above the ground. He thrilled his audience even more by letting himself be locked overnight in Madame Tussaud's waxwork Chamber of Horrors and describing his surroundings with an authentic quaver in his voice. Said a fan: "The wonderful attraction of Johnston is that one knows...