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...FESTIVAL (NET, 9-10 p.m.). The Stuttgart Opera Ballet and its director John Cranko are subjects of "Cranko's Castle," a documentary-performance featuring the company in his Opus...
CHILDREN'S THEATER (NBC, 6:30-7:30 p.m.). Sixty-three young dancers from the Children's Ballet Theater in a new version of Louisa May Alcott's Little Women, choreographed by Christine Neubert. The original score is by Robert Maxwell; Geraldine Page narrates...
Nixon-or his successor-may have a chance for another party in the White House when Ellington celebrates his 75th. The Duke is far from retired. He has just about finished one opera, is planning another and thinking about new ballet and orchestra pieces. "I don't know where I'm going," he said, "but you know, I'm going like crazy." There was only one complaint among the guests who helped him celebrate. Soul Singer Lou Rawls joshed the President that "the hors d'oeuvres could have at least been fricasseed chitlins on toothpicks." Still...
...Moscow River are crowded with young couples strolling and kissing. Even in winter there are ways to beat the restrictions imposed by the chronic housing shortage. The usual way has been to borrow the flat of a friendly couple who are going to the theater or the ballet for an evening, but leisure inspires variations. This past winter one enterprising young man booked a first-class compartment for himself and his girl friend on the Red Arrow express to Leningrad. The trip was expensive, but it took all night, and after a day of sightseeing in Leningrad, there was another...
Both of the Royal's new works, appropriately, were created by Sir Frederick Ashton, the company's director since 1963 and, with Balanchine, one of the world's two finest living ballet choreographers. "If Fred is in the English tradition," says Dame Margot Fonteyn, "that is because he is the one who made it." Like Balanchine, though, Ashton began in the Russian tradition. Born in Ecuador, the son of a British businessman, he began studying ballet at the age of 18. Two years later, he worked with the company of Marie Rambert, for whom he produced...