Word: dapper
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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Born Romain de Tirtoff in St. Petersburg, Erté, an admiral's son, adopted a nom de palette based on his initials shortly after he arrived in Paris in 1912. Now a dapper 74, he is still going strong at his studio, turning out costumes and sets for avant-garde operas. He has also designed a ballet to be shown on CBS-TV this Christmas, and contributed seven huge floats to Flying Colors, a musical spectacular starring Maurice Chevalier that will open next week at Expo 67. Still addicted to the ornate fantasies...
...army, navy and air force and Field Marshal Abdel Hakim Amer, his lifelong friend, brother-in-law and deputy commander-in-chief. Of course, the generals had not performed so brilliantly. They had convinced Nasser that Egyptian tanks could defeat the Israelis in two days. Boasted one dapper general just before the fighting broke out: "Montgomery was a good general, but a little cautious. Now as for me, I say attack, attack and again attack." He was last seen at a P.O.W. camp in Israel. When the shooting started, the troops at the front found themselves with no more than...
Fine Froth. Offenbach, a dapper dynamo with a prolific melodic gift and a boffo theatrical sense, made the French comic opera of his time into the granddaddy of today's musical comedy. In Orpheus, his first big success, he took what were then scandalous liberties with the Greek legend in order to parody Gluck's opera Orfeo et Euridice, to spoof solemn antiquity worship, and to satirize the manners and morals of the Second Empire under Napoleon III. His fiddle-playing Orpheus is glad to be rid of the unfaithful Eurydice until a character called Public Opinion forces...
...biggest cheers were rightly saved for the last curtain calls, when out stepped the dapper figure of Balanchine himself-a gem of a choreographer...
...Dandy on flute: A dapper dresser, he is as flighty as his instrument. He mischievously delights in tripping up the conductor with his superior musicianship...