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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Included in the collection are pictures of Sir Henry Irving and Ellen Terry, who played opposite him as Ophelia in a revival of "Hamlet...
...dear Sir...
...case, and when Dr. Paige has risked his life in a foolhardy experiment to find a spotted-fever serum, there is not much left of Green Light except the sediment of kindergarten metaphysics which gave the book its mass appeal. In the picture, this sediment is represented by Sir Cedric Hardwicke as Dean Harcourt, a strangely overwrought clergyman who, when the other characters come to him for counsel, expounds to them his naïve conception of human affairs. "I like to think of civilization as a parade," he observes, making the point that mass destiny is more important than...
...16th birthday, Princess Aurora pricks herself on a distaff and falls sound asleep. Prince Désiré goes hunting, a Fairy shows him a vision of the sleeping Princess, he dances with her still asleep. But it takes over two hours to straighten her affairs. . . . Because it is the longest ballet ever written and one of the most elaborate, Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty is seldom danced entire. The Philadelphia Ballet Company last week made musical history by giving the first U. S.*performance without...
People were struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...