Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...prologue to The Sleeping Beauty, New York City's then Mayor William O'Dwyer leaned over into the next Golden Horseshoe box and addressed a duchesslike lady named Ninette de Valois, directress for 20 years of the Sadler's Wells Ballet Company and later Dame of the British Empire. "Lady," said Hizzoner...
...such productions as Sleeping Beauty, Sadler's Wells puts on the kind of ballet no U.S. company can match. But Sadler's Wells has always tried manfully to prove that it could also excel in a style more up-to-date than storybook romanticism. Its success in this field has been indifferent...
This time there were four ballets new to the U.S. by the company's leading Choreographer Frederick Ashton, one by rising young John Cranko. Ashton's Scènes de Ballet was danced before a De Chirico-like architectural backdrop, proved as angularly abstract as the Stravinsky score in an intricate counterpoint of shifting groups. High point was the saucy, mincing solo of young ballerina Nadia Nerina, dancing like a flirtatious marionette to the lilting wail of an oboe...
...Union?" "You're Uncultured!" While Malone and Ellender hogged the limelight, other traveling Americans tried wistfully to get into the act. Justice William O. Douglas and his wife posed for pictures in front of Lenin's tomb: AIabama's Senator John Sparkman turned up at the ballet and a familiar figure ambled through Moscow's subway stations, thrusting out his hand to the mystified citizens. Estes Kefaurer seemed about to enter the preferential primaries in the Moscow oblast. One Sunday. The Keef toured Moscow's churches delivered a speech at the Evangelical Baptists' Church...
...weekend, before the business sessions resumed, there were many attempts to restore cordiality. Adenauer invited all the Russian leaders out to the dacha they had lent him outside Moscow. The Russians gave a special performance of Romeo and Juliet, starring the great ballerina Ulanova, at the Bolshoi Theater. The ballet closes with the elders, Montague and Capulet, clasping hands in reconciliation. In the special box, 79-year-old Konrad Adenauer rose and grasped the hands of Premier Bulganin and held them high. The audience burst into applause. Next day there was a festive lunch at which Khrushchev got chummy with...