Word: kid
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...ambitious dancer. She turned the works over to Hurok, who put in two of his glamor girls (Irina Baronova, Alicia Markova), a new director, conductor and choreographers, all trained in the Russian tradition. When the Ballet Theatre opens in Manhattan next month, its fine U.S. ballet, Billy the Kid, will be missing. Eugene Loring, who designed and danced in Billy, has left the Ballet Theatre. So has its beauteous Texas ballerina, Nana Gollner (now with the touring de Basil ballet). Sole native work will be Three Virgins and a Devil, by frizzy-haired Agnes George de Mille...
...Percy Hammond, she was "a raffish nightingale"; to Texas Guinan, "just a dumb kid." But when she climbed on top of a grand piano and sang her sultry, brokenhearted ballads, she was torchbearer for an era. When she died in Chicago last week, many a U.S. citizen heaved a nostalgic sigh for the footloose, bibulous speak-easy...
...sort of a team, because that's where all our depth is. As a matter of fact, four of these Yearlings started against Syracuse--"Jolting" Joe Martin, who is as sweet a buck back as you could want; Rus Geib, a humdinger of a guard for just a kid; Red McDonald, a mighty fine little tailback; and Frank Rochow, subbing for the injured Van Order at tackle...
Tanks a Million (Hal Roach; United Artists) puts a cheeky Quiz Kid (William Tracy) just where most cinemagoers would probably like to see him: in the U.S. Army. Unfortunately, the Army is in such shape that the Kid (named Dodo Doubleday) very nearly runs away with...
When Marva Trotter, a socially ambitious Chicago stenographer, married Joe six years ago, she hoped, like most wives, to make him over. But Joe Louis, still an unsophisticated, overgrown kid, steadfastly refused to go high-hat. He still won't go to the theater, read books, talk politics. But he can talk till the cows come home about swing bands, baseball, golf and his saddle horses, Flash and Annabelle White Star...