Word: lias
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...pupil of famed Adolphe (Giselle) Adam, wrote with a symphonic fluidity that made much of the ballet compositions of his contemporaries sound like music for setting-up exercises. In all, he turned out about 20 operettas and operas (including Lakmé) and several ballets (Coppélia and La Source). For Sylvia (written in 1876), Delibes used a 16th century story of a Greek shepherd who falls in love with one of Diana's huntresses. She repulses him until the god Eros steps in. In a scene reminiscent of The Perils of Pauline, a robber khan ab ducts Sylvia...
...LIA: THE LIFE OF GEORGE SAND (482 pp.)-André Maurois-Harper...
Female Don Juan. Maurois' title, Lélia, is taken from the partly autobiographical novel of that name that George Sand wrote in 1833 when she was 29. By then, she was already a popular author, a doting mother of two children and an emancipated hybrid who wore trousers and smoked cigars. But, above all, she was a woman who sought sexual satisfaction as vainly and desperately as her male counterpart, Don Juan. "When I was with [my lover]," the Sandian heroine Lélia confesses, "I was seized with a strange, delirious hunger which no embrace could satisfy...
Among the standout performers: Character Dancer Gerda Karstens, as a dour old Quaker lady whose stiff movements and deadpan face seemed to disapprove of what her feet were doing; lithe, pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill...
...tour of India with a fast week of seeing slums and soldiery, of meeting voluble Moslem dignitaries and veiled Moslem women in the Pakistan cities of Karachi, Lahore and Peshawar. Her tour has not been without moments of conflict. Her visit to Pakistan aggravated a female feud between Begum Lia-quat AH Khan, widow of Pakistan's late Prime Minister, and Miss Fatima Jinnah, sister of Founder Mohammad Ali Jinnah. The Begum had invited Mrs. Roosevelt to Pakistan. Outflanked, Miss Fatima stonily boycotted the famous guest and ordered the Pakistani Girl Scouts, whom she heads, to boycott...