Word: fonteyns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Britain's Queen Elizabeth II rewarded 702 Britons for their services to the Crown, produced only one surprise: no peerages to Laborites. Elevated to the Order of the British Empire: veteran (64) Thriller Spinner Agatha (The Murder of Roger Ackroyd) Christie; famed Sadler's Wells Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, 36; ailing, highbrow Author Sir Osbert (Wreck at Tidesend) Sitwell...
Producers' Showcase (Mon. 8 p.m., NBC). Sadler's Wells Ballet production of The Sleeping Beauty, with Margot Fonteyn, Michael Somes...
...quite sure what all the shouting is about. Says Ed Sullivan, calmly: "Everything they're promising to do is something I've done already." Opera? Ed has presented Metropolitan Soprano Roberta Peters 21 times, oftener than any other performer on his show. Ballet? Moira Shearer, Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet troupe made their first U.S. TV appearances with Sullivan (whose show was known as Toast of the Town until last month). Drama? Ed has given his viewers excerpts from more than 50 Broadway hits, including the smash successes Pajama Game, The Member...
...Britain, her interpretation stirred up a fine tempest. British Balletomane Cyril Beaumont, 64, huffed in London's Sunday Times: "[The original] Firebird was a beneficent, fairy-like being. Fonteyn...
presents almost a savage bird of prey." But ex-Ballerina Tamara Karsavina, 70, who created the role in 1910 and had coached Fonteyn, recalled that Fokine himself had instructed her: "You are a bird of prey ... I want a mighty beat of wings, not graceful flutterings." As for New York City, both audience and critics loved the bird, down to the last feather...