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...Rhein-Main Air Base gymnasium cheered every number to the rafters. Berlin audiences, seeing their first American ballet since the war, bravoed Jerome Robbins' Fancy Free (although the critics chewed their whiskers, muttered about "acrobatic distortion"). At the Edinburgh Festival a fortnight ago, it seemed to Directress Lucia Chase (TIME, May 8) that "everybody liked everything"; Edinburgh's Lord Provost sent an enthusiastic thank you to Harry Truman, who had given his blessing to the tour. Last week, after a Ballet Theatre opener at Covent Garden, the London Daily Mail solemnly observed that...
...Said Lucia Chase, "We realize this is what they want from us, but sometimes we wish they would let us do a little more classical ballet just to show what we can do." There would be plenty of chance elsewhere: Ballet Theatre still has Paris, Amsterdam, Brussels, Rome, Milan, Venice, Alexandria and Cairo on its calling list...
...friends outwit Villain Coyote while some frivolous otters and baby ducks supply the comic relief. Paul Smith's score is a miracle of synchronization and humorous comment. The film's piece de resistance: the frogs and crickets croaking and chirping through a chorus of the sextet from Lucia. Well worth sitting through a dull feature for, Beaver Valley is both an informative nature study and a delightful example of moviemaking magic...
Break It Up. In 1945, Lucia made tall, gifted Broadway Producer-Designer Oliver Smith her codirector. (Says Smith: "It's still Lucia who stomps into backstage arguments, claps her hands, and says 'Come on, let's break it up and get back to work.' ") Their Ballet Theatre Foundation brought in outside financial help, but even so Ballet Theatre almost went under two years ago. Lucia's own contribution: close to $1,500,000 from the fortune left her by her carpet-heir husband, Thomas Ewing Jr., who died...
...with U.S. State Department endorsement. DOS is giving its blessing because it "recognizes the great value of the arts as media for interpreting to other peoples the spirit of the United States and in furthering international understanding." It was that line about "the spirit of the United States" that Lucia Chase was particularly pleased to hear...