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...celebrate Queen Victoria's birthday. The music stops, and there is a shiver of terror: a brocaded sedan chair brings Prince Tuan, complete with jeweled-gold fingernail scabbards and about as welcome as Dr. Fu Manchu at a meeting of the A.M.A. Prince Tuan (ex-dancer Robert Helpmann) is the leader of the "Fists of Righteousness" (known as Boxers in the occidental press), those marauding rebels who are going about the provinces killing Western women, children and priests in a fanatical effort to rid China of the foreign devils...
...result, Mendelssohn is more the hero of the evening than Shakespeare; Moira Shearer's dancing far surpasses any actor's speech; the ass's head that Bottom wears is more entertaining than Stanley Holloway's Bottom. Only Robert Helpmann as Oberon can render Shakespeare's diction as well as dance, can become something fleet, mischievous, magical-and believably Shakespearean...
Lilli Palmer Show (Sun 2:45 p.m., CBS). Dancer-Actor Robert Helpmann on "Nijinski and the Ballet...
Poison Speech. Minor roles at the Oxford Playhouse followed. Claire tried out for Webster's The White Devil, which was being put in production by Michael Benthall and Robert Helpmann. Says Benthall: "Suddenly, this little girl appeared and did the poison speech from Romeo and Juliet. She looked enchanting. More important, she had extraordinary technical equipment." The cast was already filled, but Benthall and Helpmann invented a new walk-on part so that they could keep an eye on Claire. When they took over the 1948 Shakespeare season at Stratford-on-Avon, Claire went along...
...opening night of the Technicolored The Tales of Hoffmann in London's Carlton Theater, Dancing Star Robert Help-mann was presented to 83-year-old Queen Mary, who said graciously, "I think the film is very beautiful, and I particularly liked your voice." Replied Helpmann with a bow, "I wish it were my own," humbly explained to Her Majesty that the singing voices had been dubbed...