Word: schoop
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Trudi Schoop, the one-of-akind dance comedian, is to appear with her comic ballet at Symphony Hall this Friday evening and Saturday afternoon. Often called the "Charlie Chaplin of the Dance", she has made this type of humor a real art and quite in a class by itself. The program has eight different scenes which include the Meyer Home. At the Hairdresser's. At Rehearsal...
...crow hopping in the fields, a shackled slave fighting fate. The girl had no claim to beauty. Nor had she been trained as a dancer. But the audience was polite because her father was editor of the Neue Zurcher Zeitung and had indulgently hired the hall. After that Trudi Schoop would probably have remained forever unknown if she had not undertaken one day to portray a tree in a storm for the benefit of her family. Such hysterical laughter greeted her effort that she decided that she must be comic, proceeded to improvise comical dances, assemble a troupe which...
...Manhattan last week Trudi Schoop and her 22 dancers began their first U. S. tour, which will take them through the Midwest to the Pacific Coast. Her first ballet was called Want Ads. Curtain went up on a motley crowd rustling through newspapers. When a young girl was jilted, she mounted a platform, intoned "For sale: brand new wedding gown, never been worn." More amusing was the scene wherein a chorus director was driven to distraction by a particularly inept performer who subsequently advertised herself as a "well trained, highly musical danseuse, accidentally still disengaged." Trudi Schoop appeared first...
...evening's second ballet was supposed to exhibit the Schoop comedy at its best. An innocent youth, Fridolin, reluctantly leaves his mother, ventures out into the world where his trials are many. He encounters seductive women, blustering athletes, religious fanatics, gets involved in a marriage and a host of bothersome in-laws, deserts them all with a shrug to find some other life. Throughout the many scenes Trudi Schoop was the picture of bewilderment, a small pathetic figure in a black sleeveless tunic, an absurd clerical hat. Her pantomime was always effective. She danced occasionally but she was just...
Greatest gamble of his career was on the Monte Carlo Ballet. Once he had safely launched, he was ready to plunge again. This winter his roster is rich. Besides the Ballet, the Cathedral Choir and the Vienna Singing Boys, he will present a comic dancer named Trudi Schoop and her ballet from Switzerland. He is advertising first U. S. tours for Negro Contralto Marian Anderson, Russian Pianist Rudolf Serkin, the Kolisch String Quarte from Germany, and a Palestinian, Sarah Osnath-Halevy, who dances and chants in Arabian, Yemenite, Sephardic and Persian...