Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...memorable in themselves, but the cumulative effect is poignant and powerful. A wisp of a girl in a chemical plant manned by forced labor is raped by the foreman, goes mad, and hangs herself. Gurgling with vodka, the fat cats of the Rostov central committee storm the local ballet school, and as they pinch and paw the trembling girls, tell them the facts of Soviet life: "The Government keeps you, pays you, looks after you without end. Now you're going to pay some of it back...
Before 2,800 in Carter Barren Amphitheater, a company called the American Savoyards gave a frisky performance of The Mikado. During the next three months a lot of Washingtonians will spend plenty of time in the amphitheater, watching such Feld-sponsored attractions as the National Symphony Orchestra, the Ballet Theatre, Sopranos Dorothy Kirsten and Roberta Peters, Violinist Mischa Elman, Spanish Dancer Jose Greco (ticket prices: $1.25 to $3.00). While most other summer-music producers ? largely civic ?have to beg for contributions to keep going, Irv (35) and Izzy (39) stand a good chance of making...
Buttons will undoubtedly be back, but the award-winning Your Show of Shows said goodbye forever. The five-year-old revue was one of the few shows to run 1½ hours and was notable for raising Sid Caesar and Imogene Coca to stardom, for television pioneering in ballet and opera, for its parodies of U.S. and foreign films, and for pantomime sketches. Both Caesar and Coca will appear next year in their own separate TV shows, while veteran Producer-Director Max Liebman will take on the new job of overseeing NBC's big color TV spectacles planned...
Gymnastics & Glides. Leading Berlin ballet critics gave TIME this estimate: The corps is equal in precision and grace to any in the West. The male dancers are strong and athletic, but they are rarely graceful and are seldom soloists. Among the ballerinas, Galina Ulanova is not absolutely assoluta. When on pointes, she moves so delicately that she seems to glide, but Ulanova indulges in plenty of cape-swishing and distraught breast-beating. When she sticks to her own soft type of dance movement, she is superb. In classical technique, she is as good as the best U.S. ballerinas...
...Only other to hold this internationally respected rank handed out by the Russian Imperial Ballet-and unused in the Soviet Union today-was Italy's Pierina Legnani, who startled the Russians with her famous 32 fouettés (whipping turns) in 1893. She died in 1923. Kchessinska, 81, still lives in Paris, with her husband, the Grand Duke André, 75. The Duke does the daily shopping while the Absolute Ballerina gives ballet lessons and does a little polite gambling on the side...