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...ballet opened on a simply curtained stage with an eight-girl corps in red-shaded classic tutus, moving in familiar Balanchine patterns-four against four, diagonally across the stage, interweaving. Then Balanchine proved the caliber of his company. He set five ballerinas in a line: Maria Tallchief, Tanaquil Le-Clercq, Diana Adams, Patricia Wilde, Melissa Hayden. Three danseurs nobles
...Tiaras & Tutus. Five weeks ago, when the Sadler's Wells company of 65 bundled into two Constellations bound for New York the dancers were weighed down with uncertainty. It was costing $50,000 to bring them on their first visit to the U.S.-a place where ballet, while spreading to every nightclub and skating rink, had lost some of its popular appeal and much of its professional standing. The British Council, which would be called on to make up any losses, had bid them godspeed with the air of men watching $50,0000 or more go up in smoke...
...four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...
This month, for the first time, Paris' famed ballet company-the great grandmother of them all-hitched up its tutus and crossed the Atlantic to give the U.S. a chance to see what all the ga-ga-ing was about...
Quick Growth. If Ambassador Joe had a motto, it might well be Operando Tutus, Secure by Operating. Joseph Patrick Kennedy's father came over from Ireland, became the mellow-voiced boss of Ward 2 in East Boston. Joe was a newsboy, candy butcher, bus operator, Harvard graduate ('12), bank president, shipbuilder, film magnate and a Wall Street operator who left behind a monumental observation: "Anyone can lose his shirt in Wall Street if he has sufficient capital and inside information." Then he became first chairman of the Securities & Exchange Commission, under Franklin Roosevelt, first chairman of the Maritime...