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...achieve such happy results, Producers William Ritman and Bernard Gersten signed up dancers for seven different programs designed to exhibit the breadth of American dance-modern, ethnic and ballet. They presented some of the nation's star dancers: New York City Ballet Principal Dancer Edward Villella, Tap Dancer Paul Draper and the ethnic dancers of the Donald McKayle company. Even Ruth St. Denis, the 85-year-old queen of American dance, was persuaded to make a rare appearance...
Friday, August 16 International Beauty Spectacular (NBC, 10-11 p.m.). The 45 contestants for the title of Miss International Beauty are backed up by a corps de ballet and original music by Meredith Willson. Live from Long Beach, Calif...
...years ago into one of the wealthiest, most aristocratic landowning families in Viet Nam. Her maiden name was Tran Le Xuan, which means Beautiful Spring, and at her family's home in Hanoi she was waited on by 20 servants. Tutored at home, she never finished high school, took ballet lessons, once danced a solo at Hanoi's National Theater. She learned to speak French fluently, today mostly converses in that language, writes all her speeches in French before having them translated into Vietnamese...
...Russian agency called Lizenzintorg has the job of selling Soviet industrial patents to the West; it has sold the licensing rights for a continuous casting method to France's Schneider Steel Co. and to the U.S. Casting Corp. In recent years touring Soviet ballet and concert artists have brought home $1,500,000 from Britain alone, where Violinist David Oistrakh, Pianist Svyatoslav Richter and others command richer fees than U.S. artists. As well, every Communist nation has pawnshops known as "commission houses," which buy heirlooms from local people for soft Red money and sell them to visiting Westerners with...
Children at play? No, dancers at play. These were members of Britain's Western Theater Ballet company dance-miming a sugar-spun spoof of small fry called Street Games. It was one of four ballets danced in a one-night stand at Central Park's Delacorte Theater in New York by the British troupe, which has been making its official U.S. debut at the Jacob's Pillow dance festival in Lee, Mass. This is a casual group that sometimes seems more inclined to do a cha cha cha than an entrechat. Rather like the American Ballet Theater...