Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...agile, accomplished New York City Ballet, which often dances in practice costumes to spare its skintight finances, shot the works last week on a brash, brassy premiere, Stars and Stripes, set to the marches of John Philip Sousa. The works were well shot, thanks largely to George Balanchine, at 54 not only the world's most prolific choreographer (the Sousa ballet was his 93rd), but its finest...
...hours before curtain time). All the dazzle did not glare from the costumes: Ballerina Diana Adams, in a blue, yellow and red drum majorette's rig, led a regiment of girls in high, prancing kicks to the tune of Rifle Regiment; Ringmaster Balanchine had 13 men of the ballet corps performing difficult, double in-the-air turns to Arranger Hershy Kay's combination of Sousa's The Thunderer and The Gladiator...
Married. Colonel John Paul Stapp, 47, the U.S. Air Force's rocket-sledding space surgeon, now head of the Air Force's "Man in Space" committee; and Lillian Lanese, 33, El Paso ballet teacher; both for the first time; in El Paso...
...most eligible bachelors, rocket-sledding Colonel John Paul Stapp (TIME, Sept. 12, 1955), 47, now head of the Air Force's "Man in Space" Committee, is scheduled to crash through the matrimonial barrier. The bride: attractive ex-Ballerina Lillian Lanese, 33, who helps run an El Paso ballet school. Though noted for his amateur cookery (mostly steaks), Space Surgeon Stapp was not sure who will preside over the kitchen: "Just say we'll manage to eat!" Long billed as "the fastest [632 m.p.h.] man on earth," Dr. Stapp allowed that he began romancing Lillian only three months...
...traveling salesmen, the show soon catapults Actor Preston into River City. There he first catches the town's eye with a kind of stylish evangelical pitch called Trouble, then clutches the town by the lapels with a rousing Seventy Six Trombones. Later in a gay, public-library ballet, Preston soft-shoes a hard sell of love-making to the librarian. Number after number-street gossipers, the arrival of cornets by Wells Fargo, a Shipoopi in a gym-has its own blared or strutted, puppet-jiggled or cricket-chirped animation. In the title role, a Preston who had never danced...