Word: caravans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Driving at night to Deer Lodge through the National Forest, where elk, deer, bighorn sheep and mountain goat find pasture on the upper slopes, a group of skiers carrying torches popped out of the woods, stopped the caravan, asked Candidate Dewey for a speech...
...Yellow River intercepts the old desert route from Turkestan to Peking. Inside its mud walls and high gates is found a desert melting pot of Mongols, Turks, Tibetans, Manchus. Moslems who have long thrived on the city's far-flung trade. At Lanchow, Bactrian camels dump full caravan loads that have been hauled 1,500 miles from the Turkestan-Siberian railhead in Kazakistan. By camelback are brought dates from Turkestan, raisins and apricots from Turfan...
...eventually Choreographer Balanchine huffed off to Hollywood. But Impresario Kirstein refused to give up. Picking the best members of the tottering American Ballet, he formed a little company of twelve dancers, got a bus for them to travel in, and in 1936 started them barnstorming as the Ballet Caravan...
...Ballet Caravan hired no fancy-named Russian choreographers, did no classical Russian ballets. Its 20-year-old dancers concentrated on U. S. subjects, did their own staging, hired U. S. composers to write their music, added a distinct U. S. flavor to their classical leaps and entrechats. They were so successful that Impresario Kirstein soon began to lake expenses...
Last week, after a tour of 50 one-night stands, the Ballet Caravan ratted back into Manhattan and set up its tents at Broadway's dingy St. James Theatre for four nights. This time it showed Manhattan's dance fans two new U. S.-made ballets: 1) Charade, an intricate, tasty bit of choreographic icing by husky Dancer Lew Christensen; 2) City Portrait, a dour tenement-street pantomime choreographed by Dancer Eugene Loring. Dance critics liked Charade's tricky trip ping and whimsey, found City Portrait somewhat incoherent. But Kirstein 's home made ballet, like Finland...