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...Anchors Aweigh" proves conclusively that Fred Astaire has been dethroned. Kelly's imaginative dance routines are the highlights of the evening. In one charming sequence, he dances with an animated partner in a Disney-like-fairyland. In another, he chooses a pig-tailed eight-year-old to step with in a delightful exhibition of his skill. Whatever he is doing, Kelly's ease, grace, and rhythm make his dancing as much a work of art as that of Anton Dolin...
...Friday, Hollywood was beginning to tire. But not, Mr. Rank. At week's end, as the suspense became more than Hollywood could bear, someone boldly asked Rank if he were accomplishing anything. "Accomplishing anything?" 'he chuckled. "How can you accomplish anything in fairyland...
Milo Perkins did not suggest that the fight for a freer economy should go on with less vigor. But if the fight is to get anywhere, Americans must operate realistically, and "not in the fairyland of our own oratory." As a realistic start, Perkins suggested that the U.S.: 1) pass a law requiring registration of all cartel arrangements; 2) set up a Board of International Trade to review and pass on the validity of the registrations; 3) allow the board to pass on all international commodity agreements. He concluded that thus, "where we cannot eliminate the cartels, we must gradually...
...nice fantasy idea, handled with a nice sense for prankish complications, A Highland Fling just isn't written with enough gusto or grace. Its romantic moods never quite blend Scotland with fairyland; the thistle is there, but not the thistledown. And its fun is too often tame and even cute - a sort of A. A. Milne version of Tam O'Shanter...
...audience that had practically forgotten about The Red Poppy crammed the Bolshoi Theater for the crowning event of the Moscow ballet season. The event was about as revolutionary as the late Czarina's tiara. It consisted of top-flight Soviet Ballerina Lepeshinskaya leaping through the enchanted 19th Century fairyland of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty...