Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Your Toes (music & lyrics by Richard Rodgers and Lorenz Hart; book by Rodgers, Hart and George Abbott) is a good deal oftener on its uppers. The musical that in 1936 really put jazz ballet on Broadway, On Your Toes was perhaps from the start pretty much all thumbs where it wasn't nifty footwork. Time has tended to merge the show and the ballet into one, but they are scarcely more alike than Buffalo and Niagara Falls...
There are very nice songs like There's a Small Hotel, but Rodgers gave the show a ballet rather than top-drawer show music, and Hart gave it lyrics that tend to shout their cleverness. It is the Rodgers-Hart-Abbott libretto, however, that lays a curse upon the evening-the look, if ever there was one, of three men on an elephant...
Divorced. By Maria Tallchief, 29, part-Indian prima ballerina of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo: second husband Emourza Natirboff, 30 (first: Ballet Director George Balanchine), private pilot; after two years of marriage, no children; in Ciudad Juarez, Mexico...
...favorites were the two Altmann girls, as different as flesh and fire. Ursula, the pretty one, had been raped by a band of Russians, though it probably was not the first time; Lilli, fair and delicate ("probably the only virgin . . . in Berlin," observed sister Ursula), was an exquisite little ballet dancer with eyes "almost violet blue...
...wildest summer. I came back first class with a lady tennis player from Santa Barbara just to study the decadent bourgeoisie. I engaged in a Dada manifestation and helped put on a Stravinski ballet. I interviewed Abd-el-Krim in Morocco and wrote a play called Shall Be the Human Race but there's nothing worth seeing in Europe except the Ballet Russe and the révolution mondiale...