Word: rodeoing
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Before heading to the Mayo Clinic for a slight nose operation, one-man rodeo Bill ("Hopalong Cassidy") Boyd took time out to go on a Voice of America program, gave Soviet moppets the low-down on redskins and rustlers, along with some Western philosophy: "Never kick a man when he's down; never shoot a man in the back...
British balletomanes cheered once more for Fancy Free, Pillar of Fire and other modern numbers that Ballet Theatre had presented on its previous visit four years ago. They also found something new to rave about in Agnes de Mille's carefully repolished Rodeo (music by Aaron Copland). An elegant first-night audience got so far into the roughriding spirit of the thing that they obeyed the program notes, beat their hands in time to the "Running Square Dance" sequence...
...Daily Express found Choreographer (Oklahoma!, Carousel) de Mille's eight-year-old Rodeo "a shorter Oklahoma! without singing." Said the Times: "This treats a typically American subject in a way that, by its wholeheartedness, its unembarrassed and unembarrassing vulgarity . . . synthesizes, and yet still adds to the essence of American culture...
...Deacons rodeo to the Trophy on the crest of championship seasons in basketball, volleyball, and track, Kirkland also won the tennis and fencing titles. In addition, the Deacons won the House cross-country crown...
Betty carries the show with such riotous energy and eagerness to please that she threatens to carry it too far. She plunges into her first two numbers like a bronco out of a rodeo pen, filling the screen with so much motion that it is hard to listen for the words-and impossible to ignore the singer. She lacks Ethel Merman's craftiness with comedy, but along with her unbridled vitality, she gives the role something that brassy Ethel Merman never attempted: she kindles the love story with poignancy, makes it seem something more sincere than a musicomedy plot...