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...Bal Nègre (produced by Nelson L. Gross & Daniel Melnick) is the third of handsome Negro Choreographer Katherine Dunham's "revues" and, like her Tropical Revue and Carib Song, is really an evening of dancing. Miss Dunham has a well-nigh unapproached knowledge of the exotic dances of the West Indies and the Caribbean, which she has recreated in forms of her own. Bal Nègre offers a variety of them that, from a theater standpoint, seems badly lacking in variety. On its own terms, however, Bal Nègre often has a good deal of color...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

Initiates may find the real meat of Bal Nègre in its elaborate ritual dances and act-long, story-crammed ballets. More casual observers may find these somewhat arty, and cotton much more to Bal Nègre's gay, stylish folk dances-and to its spoof of the ragtime and jazz cavortings of not-so-tropical climes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Theater: New Revue in Manhattan, Nov. 18, 1946 | 11/18/1946 | See Source »

...British development of BAL, successful antidote for arsenic poisoning...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Science: Big Ten | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...caught a hitherto respected layman-gentle, white-mustached Henri Gotti, beadle of Sacré Coeur, who wore his plumed hat and carried his massive staff in parish processions. Each night, with francs filched from the almsbox, M. Gotti had slipped off to such fleshpots as the Moulin Rouge and Bal Tabarin. "Poor Gotti!" said worldly-wise parishioners. "Montmartre was too near the Sacré Coeur...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Foreign News: Church Rats | 12/31/1945 | See Source »

...None of us were amateurs, of course," Suzette explained. "We had all worked at the Bal Tabarin since before the war. But we never collaborated. A year ago the Germans were gathering a complement to send to the Maison Oslo and they did not have quite enough volunteers. So they grabbed us. They told our troop of 42 that it was for six months...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: NORWAY: Lysistrata In Oslo | 10/9/1944 | See Source »

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