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...banjo duet, Harry Minkle and Charles Wharton, follow, plucking their merry way through "Wait Till The Sun Shines Nelly." With neither pause nor protest, Mr. Bones, James Shine (electrician) rolls out in front of those staid footlights to the tune of "Alexander's Ragtime Band," followed by Langdell Hall's own Chick Wyman (janitor) crooning in Bostonese the beloved strains of "Are You From Dixie...
...paint what they feel instead of what they see. Philip Evergood, 47, took second prize with a vaguely political parody of a mythological theme: Leda in High Places. Leda and the swan (which Evergood intended to represent "nature" and "man's ideals") were elegantly drawn and painted to shine like new snow, but the picture fell apart at the top and degenerated into cartooning at the bottom. Leda's just-hatched twins were cast as symbols of race-hatred. The prize they fought for, a cracked Easter egg in the background, was filled with gold coins...
...Sleeping Beauty. There was one Russian dancer: Violetta Elvin, but she is married to a Briton who brought her out of Moscow after World War II. The two stars with the brightest shine were born in Surrey and Fifeshire: dark-haired Margot Fonteyn (TIME, April 15, 1946) and red-haired Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer. The leading male dancer, Robert Helpmann, is somewhat of a foreigner-from Australia. Chief Choreographer Frederick (Cinderella, Facade) Ashton was born in Ecuador of British parents. Some of the ballets had unmistakably British subjects, among them The Rake's Progress (De Valois) and Hamlet...
...show his cantata, Big Spring, to a visiting musician who was conducting a choral program for the prisoners. The visitor thought it was good, took it to a Nashville radio musician who declared it "definitely better than good." Grandstaff mailed off a copy to Big Spring Druggist-Historian Shine Philips...
...among others, by Composer Roy Harris ("a sense of strength ... I wonder where Grandstaff heard choral singing so brilliant"), and Big Spring bigwigs had watered down the Tennessee authorities. Last week, accompanied by a grim, 200-lb., two-gunned Big Spring sheriff, R. E. Wolf, and a smiling Shine Philips, Composer Grandstaff was flown to Texas by private plane to hear his cantata sung...