Word: chases
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Originality and liveliness are the keynotes of the Ballet Theatre, the weapons with which producers Lucia Chase and Oliver Smith hope to fight the two other major companies operating in 1946. As far as can be told from its brief Boston stand, the group has lost none of the freshness which has made it distinctive since its birth eight years...
...first group before the second ever arrives. It is very probably this skimming off of much of Boston's dance money that is the cause for the incredibly small audiences seen in the Opera House since Monday. It is a sad fact, but an obvious one which Miss Chase and Mr. Smith ought to absorb, that no city in the United States except New York is likely to support two ballet companies running within hailing distance of one another...
According to the publicity stream, the Chase-Smith company is emphasizing Theatre in its productions this year. There is no doubt that the settings and other theatrical aspects of its productions are excellent, but the overwhelming assets of the Ballet Theatre still lie in its repertoire and subordinate dancers. No one can approach a list of productions including Pillar of Fire, Fair at Sorochinsk, Fancy Free, Interplay, the new Facsimile, and a wide range of more familiar numbers. Ballets like Fancy Free have retained surprisingly well the fresh impact that made them famous originally, and the Ballet Theatre still treats...
Notorious. Director Alfred Hitchcock sends Ingrid Bergman and Gary Grant on a nerve-racking chase after postwar Nazis (TIME...
...murdering thug, Chauffeur Cummings has fallen in love with the boss's wife (Michele Morgan). How can the terrified lovers, surrounded by cutthroats, escape together on the night boat to Havana? In the better type of thriller, villains are foiled through the hero's ingenuity. The Chase's happy ending leans far too heavily on wrenched coincidence and pouncing Providence...