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...weeks Moscow's world-famed Bolshoi Theater Ballet-scheduled to make its first full-scale appearance outside the Soviet Union-had kept London's ballet fans on tenterhooks. Eighty tons of scenery already rested on a London dock when balletomanes heard that the company would not come unless British authorities dropped charges against Nina Ponomaryeva, the husky discus thrower who is charged with shoplifting (TIME, Sept. 10); the authorities stood pat. When the Russians decided to come anyway, the three jet airliners carrying the troupe found the London airport weathered in, had to land miles away...
...exciting and surprisingly fast-paced spectacle out of the opera, and at the end even succeeds in inserting a plug for the People's Republic as, "Ever rising, ever spreading, grows the people's might." While the movie is advertised as featuring the chorus, orchestra, and ballet of the Bolshoi Opera Theatre, the ballet seems to have disappeared from this version. But Moussorgsky's music, drawn mostly from Russian folk songs, is exciting and plentiful. The color, too, is excellent--not like the red and blue "technicolor" of older Russian films. There is another Soviet film on the bill...
Back from a seven-week tour behind the Iron Curtain, Showman Billy Rose announced that he had an "agreement in principle" with five Communist countries for an exchange of about 1,000 entertainers. If the State Department approves the exchange, Russia's Bolshoi Theater Ballet may open in Manhattan on New Year's eve, while Moscow on the same night gets a performance by either the New York City Ballet Company, Pianist Vladimir Horowitz, Louis ("Satchmo") Armstrong, Contralto Marian Anderson or Violinist Jascha Heifetz...
Although the cast of The Ballet of Romeo and Juliet is made up almost entirely of Moscow's Bolshoi Theater dancers, only Ulanova and a few others actually do expressive dancing in the film; the rest is rhythmical miming and pageantry à la Russe. Even the principals are made to underplay the heavily charged scenes. This makes the bedroom scene a little cool, but is a blessing when the bodies start dropping...
...were the latest emissaries from the West: nine U.S. Protestant churchmen representing the National Council of Churches. The Americans, in Russia for ten days of talk with Russian churchmen, were whisked off to lush quarters in the Sovietskaya Hotel, taken that night to The Bronze Horseman ballet at the Bolshoi Theater. Since, for the Americans, it was Lent, and Sunday at that, they seemed a little discomfited. "When in Rome," said one wryly, "do as the Romans...