Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Dello Joio's The Ruby, at Indiana University, Bloomington, had an effective libretto taken from the Lord Dunsany thriller about ruffians who steal the jeweled eye of an oriental idol only to meet the idol's gruesome, supernatural revenge. New Yorker Dello Joio, 42, known for the ballet On Stage! and the opera The Triumph of St. Joan, has mastered the stage idiom, molded his music in short, restless phrases. His score was notably effective, if not very modern...
Omnibus, a 90-minute television program, has produced an unprecedented range of educational programs--from Shakespeare's "King Lear," to specially-commissioned music, drama, and ballet performances, to a demonstration of "What's New in Football," by the Columbia football team. In every case, Omnibus has attempted to escape the more stereotyped entertainment of most commercial television...
...nights before, Ballerina Nora Kaye starred in another episode which also seemed funny-when it was all over. As Blanche du Bois in the grim ballet version of A Streetcar Named Desire, she had come within a few bars of the moment when Stanley Kowalski is supposed to rape her. The scene should have ended with Blanche making a spinning jump at Stanley (Igor Youskevitch) and being flung helplessly over his shoulder as the lights go out. Ballerina Kaye (110 Ibs.) jumped, all right, but as she did her right arm landed in her partner's left...
...Ballet is often at its best when it is (intentionally) funny. At Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House, where the loudest laughter is usually confined to Sherry's Bar, the visiting Ballet Theater last week provoked some grandiose yacks...
...Mille, who danced the part first in 1938, turned up as Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva. As Juno, Ballerina Viola Essen conveyed the bored allure of a Minsky stripper at the first morning show. And as Minerva, Ballet Theater Angel Lucia Chase achieved the air of a brave but discouraged workhorse whose limbs simply can no longer negotiate that hill. In the end, Dancer de Mille's tired but hefty seductiveness, climaxing in an elephantine cancan step, won the contest of the three disgraces...