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...initial promise. Organized in 1940 as Ballet Theatre ("American" was added in 1956), the company prospered from the start; one reason was that with Europe at war, New York had become the refuge of a staggering array of imported talent. Backed by the millions of Philanthropist and sometime Dancer Lucia Chase, Founding Director Richard Pleasant was able to put together an opening season with a roster that read like a Who's Who of the dance world. Michel Fokine, Anton Dolin and Antony Tudor were among the choreographers; Dolin, Dimitri Romanoff, Adolph Bolm and Nina Stroganova were among...
...celebrated Chicago radio journalist, Terkel has put the Depression back together from the fragmentary impressions and memories of more than 150 farmers, philanthropists, hobos, hoodlums, New Dealers and even a nude dancer whom he interviewed. Each one tells a story in a series of snippets that together miraculously re-create the age -at once petrified and alive-on paper. The views are often contradictory and thus all the more real. "We all had an understanding that it wasn't our fault. Nobody made us feel ashamed," recalls one poor white Southern girl. In another passage, a Chicago door...
...theater people," says Roland Petit. "So instead of hunting up an ordinary gift, I decided to offer my wife the Casino de Paris." The French choreographer made a lovely choice; since his wife is Singer-Dancer Zizi Jeanmaire, his gift is now one of the delights of Paris. For the first time in decades, the legendary Casino boasts a show that puts the Lido and the Folies-Bergère to shame. Nowhere on the Continent these days is there a revue to match the Casino's lively, naughty, insouciant offering. It is lavish testimony that oldfashioned, star-spangled...
Premier Playboy. The son of a poor Javanese schoolteacher and a lovely Balinese dancer, young Sukarno was a standout from his childhood days near Surabaja; his desire to be the dominant figure in every gathering from tree climbing to stamp collecting, led to the nickname djago (rooster). Later, he earned a degree and turned to the budding independence movement. His ringing rhetoric so worried his country's Dutch rulers that they jailed him for two years and exiled him for another eight. He escaped early in World War II and collaborated with the Japanese in hopes of securing Indonesia...
Tullah made her way in the New World as an "interpretive classical dancer." In 1945 she was performing in a Buffalo nightclub. Edward Hanley, a modest man from Bradford, Pa., who had made a modest fortune out of the family brick business and natural gas, caught her act. He was smitten. Three years later they were married. He was then in his 50s and Tullah only 24 or so, but she did not mind. "I was his Madonna. I wanted a spiritual man because, since 13, I was pursued by physically minded men." Tullah learned to love...