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Ballet had brilliantly proved its right to a permanent home at New York's City Center (TIME, Dec. 12). For a fortnight, the barefoot brethren of the modern dance had been demonstrating their case for adoption...
There, for 25 francs (7?) admission, stand "the shoeless ones"-the great middle-class portion of the crowd which is popularly supposed to bet its shoes and go home barefoot. When a start is bad or a favorite jostled, the crowd has been known to set fire to the beer stands dotting the infield, pull the pari-mutuel booths up by the roots and send the swells across the track fleeing...
Although the dance group members generally do their plie's locomotor routines, and stretches in two-toned blue leotards, the standards have been shelved for the prospective male contingent. Men dancers can go barefoot and the girls suggest old shirts and trousers...
East from the jagged wall of the Andes stretches the green, sealike wilderness of Bolivia's Oriente. In its lonely towns, descendants of Spanish aristocrats gravely toast the kings of Spain by candlelight; its brown-skinned, barefoot rubber gath, erers get their only view of the outside world from old film plays. In jungle-hemmed clearings jaguars and blood-sucking bats prey on the settlers' cattle. Along the region's sluggish, yellow rivers, savage bush Indians hunt heads and shoot arrows at low-flying airplanes. Occasionally, from the principal cities of Santa Cruz...
Since the symphony's first touring season in 1944, when Swalin rounded up his musicians (mostly from the North) and a tiny $2,000 subsidy from the state, he has played hundreds of concerts for barefoot kids and grateful adults, in churches, schoolhouses and ballparks. Once he even shipped his "Little Symphony" aboard a Coast Guard cutter to play for the isolated people living on sandy Cape Hatteras. This year he hopes to cover 7,000 miles. To Swalin, now 48, "good music can uplift and ennoble people, and help them to better themselves...