Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...King Henry III were throwing a royal wingding, and they were not a pair to pinch a franc. Catherine's valet de chambre, Balthasar de Beaujoyeulx, cooked up for the occasion a lavish combination of painting, music and dancing that is now rated as the first true ballet ever performed. The show began about 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, Oct. 15, 1581 in the Grand Salle of the Hôtel du Petit Bourbon in Paris, and lasted until 3:30 in the morning. There were some 10,000 spectators, and the archers of the King's Guard...
...ruling, decided at a meeting of the Association of Mothers Superior of Manila's Roman Catholic girls' schools, struck a blow that might be mortal to the Philippines' growing interest in the ballet...
Before World War II, only about 300 girls in Manila studied ballet, but during the postwar years, the visits of topnotch foreign dancers-Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin et al.-have upped enrollment in ballet schools to approximately...
...cannot believe it," editorialized Manila's Evening News. "This is a prohibition without parallel in our times . . . Ballet is one of the great arts . . . Catholic governments have encouraged and even financially supported it for centuries. It is astounding to find that we must argue such a point...
...sizes larger. The big manufacturers, Fa ther Kunkel admits, are the long-range goal. "Going to the retailer," he explained, "is an attempt to create a demand." All Manila buzzed this week over a ban posted in every Roman Catholic girls' school against accepting any student who studies ballet. The reason: the scanty costumes (leotard and tutu) used by ballet dancers and the "extraordinary positions," as one nun put it, assumed in mixed company...