Word: ballets
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...this unhappy juncture, the Russians sent Soviet Ambassador Sergei Vinogradov on a quiet trip back to Paris-officially to arrange for the visit of a Russian ballet company. Bidault suspected that his real mission was to assess the possibilities of a Cabinet revolt which would sweep stubborn, gallant little Georges Bidault and time-serving old Premier Lan-iel out of office...
...attended a performance of Moliere's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme-and had afterward treated some of the cast to candy and champagne. The U.S.S.R.'s famed Violinist David Oistrakh and Pianist Tatiana Nikolaieva recently concertized in Argentina, a Russian concert group is touring Canada, and the Soviet Ballet is preparing to open in Paris, its first appearance in Western Europe since World War II. And in London's Stoll Theater, a less-renowned Soviet dance group is on view: the Beryozka, one of Russia's top troupes of folk dancers in Western Europe...
...chase scene, when the pursuit drives Danny into a theater, the audience witnesses what is surely the first performance of a classic ballet that ever included a cakewalk. Biggest laugh: Danny, posing as a British explorer at one point, is asked what he thought of the Himalayas. For an instant he looks flummoxed, then casually pip-pips: "Loved him. Hated...
...when all this clap-trap is out of the way, Kaye rides triumphantly through the rest of the picture, assuming Eton accents, Irish brogues, car salesman mannerisms, and ballet postures with equal facility. It is only too bad that the people responsible for "Knock on Wood" seemed to feel that something inherently funny could be made out of a mother fixation and some stolen atomic secrets...
King Arthur does not conform to common conceptions of opera, Baroque or modern, Really a heroic drama, it employs Purcell's music only at intervals, with the plot advanced by spoken poetry rather than the conventional recitative. Music serves for supernatural beings, battle and drinking songs, and ballet sequences, while most of the principal characters have speaking roles only...