Word: hardings
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...have come down a long trail . . . We may stumble, but we will get up ... Raising India to its feet means hard work. Not so flashily dramatic, but quiet hard work. We may be on a mountaintop sometimes, and again in a valley below. This visit here is like a visit to the mountaintop, and I shall remember it when I am in the valley below...
Miss Crawford's chronic idealism, which has helped to nourish such noncommercial projects as the Experimental Theatre and the Actors' Studio, startled hard-shelled Broadway during the run of Brigadoon. With big profits in sight, she gave her cast of 62 what no performers expected from a producer: hospitalization insurance, free advanced acting lessons from Director Lee Strasberg, a week's vacation with...
...smoke. Cagey Ballet Importer Sol Hurok had cautiously limited the Sadler's Wells tour to four weeks in Manhattan and five on the road, and had set Manhattan ticket prices, except for opening night, at a fainthearted $4.20 top. As it turned out, tickets became almost as hard to come by as an aisle seat for South Pacific ($6 plus scalper...
...like most genuinely successful enterprises, Sadler's Wells had a lot more than luck. It had a hard-driving director in Ninette de Valois, a graduate of Serge Diaghilev's great Ballet Russe. It had a corps de ballet drilled down to the last pas de chat, an ensemble built on the theory that it is as important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George...
...Well, it is very curious. When one works in daytime, it is easy to do your regular work. You have your desk, your paper convenient. But it is hard in daytime to get something that is completely different from conventional notions. So I used to work hard all day and get very tired and nervous. Then I could not sleep at night. Sometimes at night I thought of very interesting things. Almost always, in the morning, these things turned out to be untrue. But once in a great while one of them was true and unusual. This...