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...past 23 years, visits to Manhattan by London's Royal Ballet have become a springtime ritual. In most cases, the company's programming has become ritualistic too: 19th century warhorses like Swan Lake and Giselle, plus a generous dash of contemporary works like The Dream and The Two Pigeons by the Royal's longtime director Sir Frederick Ashton...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Royal Eggs | 5/22/1972 | See Source »

...Bavaria. But at 35, after severe bouts of sickness and marriage, she rallied enough to join the California gold rush. She opened a frontier salon in a mining camp called Grass Valley and stocked it with Ludwig's jewels, Louis Seize cabinets, ormolu mirrors, Kanaka houseboys, a swan bed, a pet bear and every Senator, Governor or millionaire she could find. In the back of her mind, as letters discovered after her death made clear, was a plot to capture California from the U.S. and set herself up as Queen of Lolaland...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Books: Beautiful and Be Damned | 5/15/1972 | See Source »

...creaking, embarrassingly shabby production of Wagner's Tannhauser for Gentele's first opening night next September. Gentele quickly changed that: it will be a brand-new Carmen starring Marilyn Horn, with Leonard Bernstein conducting and Gentele himself directing. Bing also spent a probable $700,000 on his swan song, last March's new and spectacularly good production (by Franco Zeffirelli) of Verdi's Otello, when the nine-year-old and commensurately splendid Eugene Berman production was in perfectly good shape. That indulgence (including 100 costly costumes that were never used) will not help Gentele...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Ebb and Flow at the Met | 5/1/1972 | See Source »

Dave Brumwell, in the next event, set a new school record in the 200 yd. individual medley with a very good time of 2:00.8 but, in an exciting finish, he was beaten by Charles Cambell of Princeton who swan a 2:00.1 and set the pool record. Going into the drive, therefore, Harvard held a slim 22-21 lead...

Author: By Charles B. Straus, | Title: Swimmers Lose to Princeton, 67-46; Mitchell, Baughman, Brumwell Excell | 2/14/1972 | See Source »

...century and mistress of the Czarevich before he became Nicholas 11; in Paris. Isadora Duncan described her as "more like a lovely bird or butterfly than a human being," and Nijinsky tore at his costume in a jealous rage when she upstaged him in a 1911 performance of Swan Lake. Though regarded as a national heroine in Czarist Russia, Ksches-smska's close association with the royal family-she later married Nicholas' cousin Andre and became Princess Ro-manovsky-Krassinsky-made her a target of the Bolsheviks, who sacked her St. Petersburg mansion during the 1917 revolution. Forced...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Milestones, Dec. 20, 1971 | 12/20/1971 | See Source »

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