Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Gene Autry and his rodeo clattered into the Boston Garden last Tuesday afternoon, just at the five o'clock rush hour, thereby nosing out both President Truman, who rolled into town just at the five o'clock rush hour on Wednesday, and Governor Dewey, who arrived just as the folks were going home Thursday evening...
...director of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo shook his head violently over the new ballet. Said he: "You might as well put a mustache on a Rubens." He tried to get Rodeo-and the American woman who composed it-thrown out of the company...
...director failed, and a few nights later, the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo at the Met. To almost everyone's surprise, Manhattan thought it was wonderful...
That night in 1942, Choreographer Agnes George de Mille got her first taste of success. Last week, when the Ballet Russe presented Rodeo again, with Agnes dancing as the Cowgirl, the boots and blue-jeans no longer seemed strange; her wistful story of a girl who could rope a steer, but not a man, had the feel of a familiar classic. One reason: Theatre Guild scouts had seen that first performance of Rodeo and persuaded Agnes to do the dance numbers for Oklahoma! Then followed One Touch of Venus, Bloomer Girl, Carousel, Brigadoon, Allegro and this year's brilliant...
Agnes borrowed money, gave recitals, lost money. Then she went to England, "where it was cheaper to fail." Gradually, critics began to applaud her ballets for their witty pantomime and fast, fresh paces. The Ballet Russe finally asked her for a choreography. Result: Rodeo...