Word: marchands
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: all
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...work. In Two on the Aisle he has the support of a new Broadway sensation: a glittering, full-blown beauty named Dolores Gray, whose presence, style and big, happy voice make the revue's less-than-distinctive music sound far better than it is. Paris-born Ballerina Colette Marchand reveals one of the Continent's sexiest pairs of legs, sheathed in provocative black silk stockings. But it is bald, big-nosed, wild-eyed Bert Lahr who carries the show, provides it with tone, personality, guts and laughter and nightly fills the big house (1,527 seats) to bulging...
Ruth Ford carries the main load superbly in "A Phoenix Too Frequent" with Nancy Marchand and Robert Flectcher in two supporting roles. The plot, if such it be, involves a Greek widow starving herself beside the body of her beloved Virilius, who perished heroically "in his office tunic...
...Thayer David, stating quite simply: "It's a rule!" Indeed the rules seem to apply quite aptly to the ordinary drama, though not to Sheridan. For "The Critic" sweeps through a duel, a reenactment of the British fleet subduing the Spanish Armada, and a scene in which Nancy Marchand goes mad with her "confidante" Jan Farrand mimicking her exquisitely. In a grand boffola ending Brittania is lowered from the ceiling by a block and tackle. Andrew E. Norman
...shorter ballets are also in the program. "Le Combat" is based on a canto of Tasso's "Jerusalem Delivered." In it Collette Marchand, who also stars in "L'Oeuf a la Coque," dances beautifully in a more traditional style. "Le Rendevous" is a somber and moody ballet of Paris which features Henry Danton. As good as they are, these suffer by comparison with such excitingly imaginative spectacles as "Carmen" and "L'Oeuf a la Coque...
...show was La Corrida, though the picture's composition was halfheartedly cubistic and for all its elegant Etruscan overtones the drawing was weak. The color, which Marchand pretends not to care about, was magnificent; as a colorist he had cleared the wall...