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...time the great Gunder Hägg had finished his eighth and last U.S. race at the Triborough Stadium of New York City last week, the lean, blond Swede with the quick flash of mordant wit and the flawless leg action had done something to U.S. track performances. Without apparent exertion he had lowered the old standards that once meant championship running...
Four Minutes Flat. Unlike Nurmi, Hägg has no fancy theories about his speed. A bashful, homespun farmer's son, reared in the wooded hills of northern Sweden, he attributes his flawless style to the springy forest paths, thickly padded with pine needles, where he first learned to run. He believes he is smooth and swift because he enjoys running more than anything else in the world except playing his accordion and doing the hambo, a native Swedish dance...
...Taglioni and the late great Anna Pavlova. Well above a mime dansante (like Irina Baro-nova), immeasurably superior to a soubrette (Zorina's rating), Alicia Markova has attained to the category danseuse noble, and she may get to be a ballerina assoluta yet. She has a combination of flawless classical technique and an ability to project emotion that bowls over even the uninitiates in the audience. Balleto manes may discuss the superb qualities of her sustained Arabesques (balancing on one toe) and battements de gages (kicks from a tiptoe position), but even the man from the street can tell...
Even for Producer Cornell, this galaxy came about more by necessity than design. She wanted to play in The Three Sisters; her husband wanted to direct it. But they found that Chekhov, perhaps the most difficult of all playwrights to do justice to, demands the most flawless casting, the most balanced acting...
...Druten's deft writing and direction have combined with the meticulous producing of Dwight Decre Wiman and the flawless acting of Flora Robson and the unusually good supporting cast to make a production that is an exercise in technical excellence. Miss Robson, displaying again her complete mastery of her art, is perfect as the English spinster; she is so good that even Jane Austen would probably approve of her. Margaret Dougless is outstanding as an overbearing matron, and Celeste Holm is very good as a breezy actress. Definite ornaments to the cast are a handsome and promising juvenile, Peter Fernandez...