Word: madnesses
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Ballet supremacy teetered between France and Italy until Russia raised it to its peak. Peter the Great imported Western dances. Catherine did more, and so did her mad son Paul. Thereafter a national ballet school flourished in Russia. The Classicist, Petipa, trained all his dancers until they had superlative technique. Isadora Duncan had an influence because of her free approach to music, her dominating personality. Michael Fokine appeared on the Russian scene with his own liberated ideas, introducing the ballets with which Sergei Diaghilev paved his way throughout the Western world...
...Nijinsky is mad, cloistered in a Swiss sanatorium. Now Diaghilev is dead, his company disbanded. For its so-called successor, the popular Monte Carlo Ballet Russe, Author Kirstein has limited respect. He freely grants talent to its maitre de ballet, Leonide Massine, to Ballerinas Alexandra Danilova, Tamara Toumanova, Tatiana Riabouchinska, Irina Baronova. But his hope is centred on the new American Ballet, engaged this season for the first time to supply dancing at Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House...
...conversation reached the point where the Mad Hatter thought he had better have...
...news, one would attribute it to sloppy journalism. But the reason is all too obvious. Mr. Baldwin believes in doing something about peace. He stated that only through an active United Front for Peace and mass political action can the Powers-that-be be stopped in their mad drive to war. He quoted the statement of General Smedley D. Butler that the military forces of this country were the tools of Wall Street: the powers-that-be. He recommended the American League against War and Fascism, now numbering over one and a half million members. And most important, he spoke...
...Porter's lyrical efforts is in its fifty-first week and a fine thing it is. "At Home Abroad" which opened in Boston a bit too early for the college boys is a magnificently staged revue with a glittering cast ranging all the way from Auntie Bea Lillie's mad antics to Paul Haakon's very impressive modern terpsichore, and including the talented toes of Eleanor Powell and the powerful dusky notes of Ethel Waters. "Jubilee," another Boston opener, is on the grand scale with a nicely turned bit of satire and Mary Boland leading a well rounded cast. "Porgy...