Word: dartington
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ballet, The Green Table, was put on as a free show for 350 U.N. staff members, delegates and their wives at Manhattan's City Center. It had been danced some 2,500 times here & abroad. After World War II came, Jooss (pronounced yose) and his dancers returned to Dartington Hall, Mr. and Mrs. Leonard Elmhirst's fabulous cultural hothouse in Devon, England, later performed regularly for Britons and Allied troops. The 26-man Jooss Ballet is now touring the U.S. for the first time since...
Personable "Mike" Straight went to school at his mother's vast Dartington Hall experimental colony in England, got an economics degree at Cambridge, returned to the U.S. to work as a State Department economist. He later helped Tom Corcoran and Ben Cohen ghostwrite New Deal speeches, reported off & on for the New Republic, worked up to be the family corporation's watchdog on the staff...