Word: swans
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Black Swan (20th Century-Fox) dives headfirst into a Technicolored splash of kicking señoritas and their buccaneer abductors, settles down to handsomely routine piratical high jinks. For Sabatini-addicts there is veteran Director Henry King's expert translation of Sabatini's romantic novel about young love and buckets of blood on the Spanish Main. For others there is a coy love affair between Tyrone Power and Maureen O'Hara...
...Waring (Tyrone Power), who stands by his old captain, Henry Morgan (Laird Cregar), when Morgan decides to reform and put his buccaneering ex-mates out of business. Villain is Captain Leech (George Sanders, in a beard like a bonfire), also one of Morgan's raiders. The Black Swan is unreformed Captain Leech's pirate ship. Heroine is Lady Margaret Denby (Maureen O'Hara), daughter of Jamaica's ousted Governor...
...Miss It. At Swan Lake, N. Y., Motorist Samuel Liebowitz, a stranger, followed a native's directions, made a left turn on a bumpy road in a fog, presently came to a man waving a lantern, stopped, found himself out on a railroad trestle...
...Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo was to join it a week later at the same stand. While balletomanes roared approval in accents as thick as borsch, more staid Manhattanites took stock of the first of five brand-new ballet productions, mooned nostalgically over such puff-skirted favorites as Swan Lake and Sylphides, such latter-day spectacles as Petrouchka and Bluebeard...
...Theatre's famous chore graphers have brought "Swan Lake" back to Diahileff's classical interpretation which is ballet and its most typical, and possibly best, form. Nimble-footed Markova and Apollo Dolin swing, sway, and pirouette in the center of the floor while a score of swan-maidens in traditional, white chees cloth play charades in the background. Perfection that "Swan Lake" may be, the show was stolen by this season's newcomer, "Pillar of Fire." It took this super-choreographic and tragic ballet to really rouse the audience, but even the dowagers stood up in the boxes and clapped...