Word: greenness
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Three years have passed since the Jooss dancers first visited the U. S., failed financially in spite of the indelible impression left by The Green Table, a scathing satire on the men who promote war (TIME, Nov. 13, 1933). Last winter the Jooss group staged its comeback, thanks in part to the booming interest in ballet. This year its tour will extend to the Pacific Coast, later on to the Orient...
...Green Table remains the best of the Jooss ballets, wears well as a masterpiece. In it ten of the dancers mime as diplomats, first suave, later pompous, finally furious. With foolish toy pistols they start the war through which Death stalks, imperiously destroying soldiers and their womenfolk, pecking fatally at a cocky little profiteer, sparing only the diplomats, inscrutably masked, back at the green table again making more trouble...
...hatted libertine. For The Prodigal Son, the one ballet to have its U. S. premiere last week, Choreographer Jooss went back to the old Biblical legend, cast himself as the square-bearded patriarch, Elsa Kahl as the mother, muscular Rudolf Pescht as the wandering son. Result was not another Green Table, but a ballet with spots that were powerful, spots that were not. The sirens Pescht meets on his philanderings contribute little to the modern dance. On the other hand, his homecoming is deeply moving, from the time he drags himself in, ragged and exhausted, to the final scene when...
...Green was too good as a team, while only Captain Wood could match them individually on the attack...
...Hampshire took the measure of the Harvard and Dartmouth Harriers in the Triangular cross country Moot yesterday afternoon by the score of 37 to Harvard's 47 and the Green's 52. At the same time the Crimson Freshmen won out 31 to 41 for Dartmouth and 50 for New Hampshire...