Word: jacob
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Down went the house lights, up came the footlights, and there before the curtain stood a tall, grey man whose daring dancing had once shocked the purists and made history in the dance. Ted Shawn, 63, is at home before any audience, but this audience was his special home-Jacob's Pillow, in the Berkshires near Lee, Mass., where he turned a weed-grown farm into the hub and Mecca of dancing in North America. Shawn introduced what he called "the apex of our achievement in presenting dancers at Jacob's Pillow," the Royal Danish Ballet. Then...
Success Without Ice. The Danes, who rarely venture far from Copenhagen, have a distinct style of their own. Its originator was the great Danish choreographer, August Bournonville (1805-1879), and a dash of Bournonville was what the balletasters came to Jacob's Pillow for. In two pieces, the dancing lesson called "Konservatoriet" and the pas de deux from the "Flower Festival in Genzano," they found it-gay, pretty romanticism instead of the drawn-steel tension of the Diaghilev tradition, verve and enthusiasm instead of icy perfection. Surprise of the program was a snippet from Coppélia, choreographed...
...dancers. From 1933 to 1940 he successfully toured the country with his troupe of male dancers. But with World War II the draft made short work of this project. Shawn himself danced and directed shows at Keesler Field, Miss. Since the war he has devoted himself to building up Jacob's Pillow as a combination summer festival of dancing and a "University of the Dance." Current enrollment: 60 boys and girls who study ballet, modern dance, and ethnic dance (Indian, Hindu, Spanish, etc.) under Shawn and a faculty of eleven...
...Cardinals' owner, Fred Saigh, was jailed for income-tax evasion. Ostensibly, Busch bought the Cardinals to save them for St. Louis. But he makes no bones about the fact that the team helps him sell more Budweiser. When sportswriters needle him about his commercialism, Busch snorts that Colonel Jacob Ruppert owned the New York Yankees for 30 years while he also owned Ruppert brewery, and that many of the 16 major-league team broadcasts are sponsored by beer companies...
POTATO PRICE QUIZ by the U.S. Agriculture Department flushed more evidence of market rigging (TIME, June 20). The Government charged Manhattan's Jacob Stern & Co. with virtually cornering the supply of cash potatoes on the New York Mercantile Exchange in February so that it could juggle prices. The shortage that made cornering easier is ending. Government forecasters expect that the summer crop may be 20% over last year...