Word: rodeos
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Graduate School of Education, was thrown by the bull. Cheeney, who hails from the wild hinterlands of Colorado, was intrigued by the challenge coming over the ether lately; "Can you ride Big Syd?" and tossed his name in the hat over at Brave's Field where the Rodeo is being held...
...back of Big syd, the Brahma Bull, attracted 500 local neophyte cowboys Sunday afternoon, but Cheeney was the unfortunate winner of the drawing. Big Syd was apparently well trained or rather untrained by his owners and succeeded in throwing the professor in 4 1/2 seconds, and the Rodeo people put their $1000 safely back in the cash register...
...dawn a soberminded flock of Christians, Buddhists and Shintoists gathered among the ruins at Hiroshima's Jisenji Temple for silent prayer and meditation. But thousands of their fellow citizens carried on as if the first anniversary of the atomic bomb were Rodeo Day in the Texas Panhandle. They jammed movie houses to see special anniversary shows, stampeded in the city's makeshift department stores to take advantage of bargain sales in Hiroshima-made products. The day ended with a bangup ritual lantern dance on the grounds of a Shinto shrine...
...only male dancer in the Ballet Theater who is tops is Andre Eglevsky, while John Kriza, John Taras, etc. are strictly still in the stage of development. Obviously no company in America can offer Frederic Franklin in such a wide variety of roles as the "Champeen Roper" in "Rodeo," the "Golden Slave" in "Scheherazade," the "Baron" in "Gaite Parisienne" and in a variety of classic roles ranging from "Les Sylphydes" to the "Nuteracker," and in such modern classical roles as "Danses Concertantes" and "Mozartina...
J.A.L. speaks kindly of "Rodeo," saying patronizingly that "this simple, attractive story" stood up well beside works of greater fame. If "Rodeo" is not one of the most famous ballets presented in recent years by any ballet company, what is it? Does J.A.L. realize that "Rodeo" by Agnes de Mille was the force behind ballet in all musical comedies? When the Theater Guild saw the Ballet Russe's production, they hired de Mille to do the choreography for "Oklahoma!" and even J.A.L. surely doesn't need diagrams drawn from here...