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...shocked operagoers by making his first appearance in high leather boots, and by removing them right in the middle of his performance. Once, during rehearsal, he became so enraged that he strode over to a violinist, snatched his violin, and crashed it over his head. He fought with his prima ballerina and when her fellow dancers stuck by her, he conducted Die Fledermaus without any ballet. Once he had to be searched out in a café minutes before curtain time...
Brilliant & Bold. What would Chicagoans see when the great dusty-rose curtain goes up this week? There would be few breath-taking solos, although dark-eyed Prima Ballerina Yvette Chauviré would certainly draw a few gasps with her cameolike dancing. Few of the 16 ballets would be familiar-and none would be as broad and nappy as U.S. ballets like Billy the Kid. Chicago's big stage was just right for the Paris ballet's specialty: brilliant spectacle in the great tradition, plus the bold and polished choreography of a greying little man known to balletomanes...
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...
...yarn's hero is a Molnaresque playwright. Its presumable moral: when it comes to finding a happy ending for a sorry mess, only a playwright will do. The playwright's young godson is engaged to a beautiful prima donna. Late one night, godfather and godson overhear the lady, through thin walls, in a vocal and vigorous love scene with an actor. While the godson threatens suicide, the godfather hits on how to save the day: the guilty lovers had really been rehearsing-a play which has still to be written...
...means always spirited: the lines are witty enough, but the story is all too frequently becalmed. The production, however, is well managed throughout. Louis Calhern (Jacobowsky and the Colonel) acts the playwright with sophistication and style; Arthur Margetson plays the trapped actor with humor. As the prima donna, Faye Emerson always scores with her looks, not always with her lines...