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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Kirstein was a huge (6 ft. 4 in.), bullet-headed young man, who, though just out of Harvard, was already showing signs of becoming the U.S. version of Diaghilev himself (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). An heir to a Filene department-store fortune in Boston, he was an editor of the arts magazine Hound & Horn, author of a rash first novel and a book of poetry, and teetering on the edge of balletomania. His dream: to found a truly American ballet company. There was nothing for it but to get the world's foremost Russian choreographer to spark it. Balanchine...
...other new work is a loving exercise in Russian nostalgia: a Balanchine version of the old story-telling Nutcracker, with music by Tchaikovsky, sugarplum fairies, and a Christmas tree as big as Balanchine can fit on to the stage. The Nutcracker will take a full evening, and provide 35 children's roles for youngsters of Balanchine's ballet school. Central theme of Nutcracker: food...
Former President Truman, on a filmed television program with Columnist Drew Pearson last week, gave his version of the famed "red herring" crack about congressional spy hunts in 1948. Said Harry Truman: "The facts of the case are that, in a press conference one morning, some young man . . . asked me if the action of the House Un-American Activities Committee was not in the form of a red herring to cover up what the Republican Administration in the 80th Congress had not done, and I said it might...
...seven-year association between Godfrey and Chesterfield? Arthur's great & good friend Walter Winchell rushed into print with an explanation: "Godfrey quit his ciggie sponsors. They didn't quit him. He didn't like the commercials." New York Journal-American Columnist Dorothy Kilgallen had a different version: "Around CBS they say the split . . . was preceded by a sizzling backstage battle just before airtime," but Dorothy failed to say what the sizzling battle was about or whom it was between. Fred H. Walsh, president of the advertising agency concerned (Cunningham & Walsh), insisted that he was completely...
...Charles Boyer first lured Hedy Lamarr to the Casbah in a film called Algiers. Since then the suave Frenchman has become permanently associated with the exotic atmosphere of Algiers' native quarter. Algiers, however, was only a mellowed version of the French production Pepe le Moko, and Boyer only a romantic substitute for a more brutal Pepe, played by Jean Gabin...