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...equally ambitious, far more controversial ballet with a supernatural theme was stirring up critics in Europe last week. The work: Dybbuk, by Choreographer Herbert Ross. Staged by Ballets of Two Worlds, the company recently formed by Ross and his wife, Ballerina Nora Kaye, Dybbuk proved to be a three-act excursion into cabalistic legend. Long intriguing to dramatists,* the Dybbuk legend in the Ross ballet version was set to a sparkling score by Vienna-born Composer Robert Starer. Ballerina Kaye was cast in the role of the heroine, Leah, whose body is possessed by a dybbuk, or demon...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Sea Sprites & Demons | 10/3/1960 | See Source »

...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayefsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 16, 1960 | 5/16/1960 | See Source »

...Tenth Man. The girl is obviously psychotic, but Playwright Paddy Chayevsky-in a strikingly original play set in a Long Island synagogue-suggests that she might be possessed by a dybbuk, an evil spirit that has all but vanished from currency in the age of Freud...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, may 9, 1960 | 5/9/1960 | See Source »

...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young Jewish girl possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) succeeds as a genuine theater piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Apr. 4, 1960 | 4/4/1960 | See Source »

...Tenth Man. Playwright Paddy Chayefsky's story about a young girl believed possessed by a dybbuk (evil spirit) fails to save fantasy from sentimentality but succeeds as a genuine theater piece...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CINEMA: Time Listings, Dec. 21, 1959 | 12/21/1959 | See Source »

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