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...which lacks Europe's state-supported ballet schools and its longstanding ballet tradition, is supposed to be a dim spot for the production of topflight classical ballerinas. Last week, watching Oklahoma-born Maria Tallchief dance with the vigorous young New York City Ballet Company, balletomanes could smile at that one. Combining gusto with flawless technique, Maria's performance in Firebird already ranks as one of the finest in present-day ballet; her other specialties, e.g., the Balanchine-Bizet Symphony in C, her Pas de Deux from Sylvia, and Divertimento, are danced with the style and confidence...
...them: Dancer-Actress Tamara Geva, who became his first wife; Ballerina Alexandra Danilova, who became his second. Subsequent wives: Berlin-born Dancer Vera Zorina, from whom he was divorced in 1946, Oklahoma-born Ballerina Maria Tallchief, part Osage Indian, from whom he separated last month...
...find out. First on the program was Juilliard President William Schuman's Symphony for Strings. Riviera critics, hearing it for the first time, found it "purely scientific music," but noted that "among a sea of dissonances there are hidden some real beauties." Then they were assaulted by Oklahoma-born Roy Harris' Third Symphony; its abrupt ending, with a savage blast from the whole orchestra, left the audience gaping (muttered the perspiring tympanisf. "For this kind of thing I should have six arms"). When the audience recovered, they gave Harris' Third long and generous applause...
Gleam. Texas Eastern had begun as a gleam in the eyes of E. Holley Poe, an Oklahoma-born gas consultant; Everette Lee De Golyer, Texas' famed oil geologist ; Charles I. Francis, a Houston lawyer, and Houston's shipyard-building brothers, George and Herman Brown (TIME, Feb. 24). They advanced some $250,000 (later repaid by the company) in the early stages of engineering, planning and bidding. When down payments totaling $5,100,000 had to be made to the War Assets Administration, Dillon, Read's help was sought. Dillon, Read & Co., with the Browns, et al, lent...
...past 20 years three hard-working men have written 90% of all the musical comedy orchestrations that have hit Broad way. They are Kansas City-born Robert Russell Bennett, Vienna-born Hans Spialek, New Jersey-born Don Walker. To these three has recently been added Oklahoma-born Ted Royal, who specializes in hot jazz arrangements. These four do most of their work in the offices of one of Tin Pan Al ley's biggest song publishers, Chappell & Co. Their average job of musicomedy tailoring takes about two weeks...