Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...public eating places, from home record players, radios and TV sets. In addition to mechanized melody, there is more live serious music being played than ever before-the number of U.S. symphony orchestras has passed 1,000 and is still growing, and there is a more modest increase in ballet and the opera...
...invasion of wildly ill-assorted guests, invited and uninvited: friends and members of the bride's and groom's own families, the Kellys from Philadelphia, the Grimaldis and Polignacs from divers corners of Europe, a kaleidoscopic assortment of celebrities from both sides of the Atlantic, ballet troupes from London and Paris, sailors from visiting warships, a scattering of second-class princelings, an unidentified covey of international thieves (who got away with a whopping $150,000 during the festivities), and some 1,600 accredited representatives of the world's press, mostly self-centered and angry...
...Berra Ballet. The arrival of the baseball season was heralded with another brace of biographies. ABC's Cavalcade Theater offered the life story of Jackie Jensen, an outfielder for the Boston Red Sox, but its only dramatic high point seemed to be that, except for baseball, Jackie might have been expelled from junior high school. On Climax!, The Lou Gehrig Story possessed more inherent drama as paralysis ended both the career and life of the great Yankee first baseman, but unfortunately, the TV treatment was strictly soap opera. NBC got in another plug for the national pastime with Salute...
...leading characters, Venus and Amor, were well portrayed by Malama Providakes and Miss Raisz, and the Souls of the Heartless Women were acted by members of the Radcliffe Dance Group. The ballet was rather unsteady and hesitant, although thoroughly charming, while Venus and Pluto were not relaxed enough in their stage bearing. These imperfections, however, were outweighed by the general excellence of the production: the competent singing, the fine instrumental support, and the brilliant costumery, designed by Anne Hollander--all under the apt direction of Robert Beckwith. The setting, moreover, was very appropriate: the antique statuary and columnwork...
...splintered, and to suggest that the true test of Soviet eagerness for coexistence would be its willingness to abandon subversion abroad. He had filled much of K. & B.'s schedule with opportunity for such cozy seminars. Though they would also have a chance to see the ballet, a few old castles and a factory or two. great care was being taken that their audience with the Queen should not be photographed, lest the Russians later misuse the pictures in colonial Africa...