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Ballet Theatre. Mr. Hurok's other troupe, replacing the ballet of Colonel Wassily de Basil is the Ballet Theatre. In its Chicago and Manhattan runs this outfit raised high hopes, but its policies did not suit its backer, Lucia Chase, herself a rich widow, an 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...
...Lucia and Antigua, two islands intended primarily to be service stations for patrol planes...
Most of the still undeveloped sites will rate as service stations for naval, air and land forces. Thus Bermuda and Jamaica are to be major service stations (naval and air); Antigua and St. Lucia are to be secondary ones (for air). Three of the links in the chain will be much more than service stations. Trinidad, Puerto Rico, the Canal Zone will be the key positions...
...formalized the lease to the U. S. of sites for naval and air bases in Newfoundland (six pieces of land, one of them 2,610 acres); Bermuda (five parcels of land, totaling 545 acres); Jamaica (six areas of land and water, totaling 55 sq. mi. and 275 acres); St. Lucia (more than 1,255 acres); Antigua (1.4 sq. mi. and 430 acres); Trinidad (one area of 18 sq. mi., one of 12, one of 2 and one of 96 acres); British Guiana (one area of 2½ sq. mi. and one of 1.400 acres...
...Ellen Berg,11. In a soprano that was emotionless, usually hall-size, usually on pitch, she sang an air from Mozart's Magic Flute. Sophisticated kids and mammas gave each other sidelong looks when Conductor Rudolph Ganz announced that Ellen Berg would next sing the Mad Scene from Lucia di Lammermoor. On that glassy surface, double-runners are not allowed. Coloratura Berg sailed out cleanly, figure-eighted through her trills, skidded a couple of times into her flute accompanist, ducked low to coast into her final note an octave below the conventional high E flat. Wisely, she made...