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...began as a soloist, and over the years danced her supple way to stardom in Leningrad and at Moscow's Bolshoi Theater, where she has been a top-ranking ballerina for six years. She has become famous for her roles in Swan Lake, Sleeping Beauty, Giselle, Romeo and Juliet. For her poetic warmth based on flawless technique, critics lucky enough to have seen her dance rank her with Pavlova...
...formula for choosing his out-of-the-way programs is simple, if not 100% successful: "Any piece of music I get a bang out of, I think the public will like too." So far, he has given world premieres of David Diamond's Romeo and Juliet Suite, Norman Dello Joio's Concerto for Harp and Orchestra, Douglas Moore's Farm Journal (all commissioned by Scherman himself), and revived many a little-known smaller work by Haydn, Schumann, Brahms, Stravinsky and Schbnberg. He has no fear of running out of things to play. Digging around in the "terrific...
Lillian Helman, another powerful voice out of the recent past, has a now drama at the Coronet at 49th Street. The Autumn Garden stars Frederic March, Florence Eldridge, Jane Wyatt, and Kent Smith. Movie star Olivia de Havilland is leading a company of Romeo and Juliet at the Broadhurst, on 44th...
...Hollywood's Olivia de Havilland Juliet was a gallant try but a double miss. She is neither a good enough actress nor a magical enough Juliet. She never seems to feel the part-only the importance of it. She never seems in love with Romeo-only with Romeo and Juliet. She recites poetry where she should radiate it; and goes through the role as though following a score marked presto or lento, ff. or pp. It is a thoroughly modest, painstaking performance, but it just never seems to matter...
...chance to vote for the best of three recorded Hamlets (John Gielgud, Maurice Evans, John Barrymore). As a change of pace, Ferrer promises readings from Shakespeare's sonnetts by Gielgud, Basil Rathbone, Dame Edith Evans, as well as his own interpretations of roles from Othello and Romeo and Juliet. To close his lively half-hour with a Shakespearean flourish, Puerto Rican-born Actor Ferrer took some liberties with lines from Richard...