Word: versions
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Spaniards, who have seen little but heeltapping Spanish national dancing since Franco, gave their main applause to George Balanchine's new version of the classic Swan Lake. Oldsters in the audience had a dim memory, at least, of the classic style from the time when Diaghilev's Ballets Russes visited the Spain of Alfonso XIII. But they were more puzzled than pleased by such contemporary psychological pieces as Antony Tudor's Lilac Garden. Balanchine himself noted "a vast difference from the fiery enthusiasm I see at bullfights here...
Blue Tango (Leroy Anderson; Decca). A sort of poor man's Third Man Theme, set to jolting Latin rhythm. This version by the composer triumphs over those by Xavier Cugat, Guy Lombardo...
...occasional "name" guest. It also has a sponsor (Old Gold), an audience estimated at 16 million, and it has received an impressive 2,000,000 letters in less than a year. Last February the show went on radio over the Mutual network; this month a Spanish-language version began telecasting in Cuba, and this fall it is expected to be heard in Australia and England. Much of the credit for these successive triumphs goes to Evans, whose accent strangely combines the rural Midwest (he was born in Franklin, Ohio) and Oxford (he was a Rhodes Scholar and took his Ph.D...
Anything Can Happen. Folksy, affectionate film version of George and Helen Papashvily's 1944 bestseller about an immigrant from Russian Georgia (José Ferrer) who discovers America (TIME, April...
...African Queen. A prissy old maid (Katharine Hepburn) and a gin-swilling skipper (Humphrey Bogart) triumph over jungle heat, hardship and the hangman's noose in John Huston's Technicolored version of C. S. Forester's adventure yarn (TIME...