Word: violas
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...story is a Hecht original: a great dancer (Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns...
...whose capacity for hard work matched his own. Chief weakness of George Antheil's alert score is the absence of Spectre's traditional music (Carl Maria von Weber's Invitation to the Waltz). Among the film's good points: young Kirov's tormented athleticism; Viola Essen's fresh beauty; the rich, workmanlike performances of Miss Anderson and Mr. Chekhov...
Married. Morton Cecil ("Mort") Cooper, 33, burly Boston Braves ace pitcher (who on his wedding night was knocked out of the box by unfeeling St. Louis Cardinals); and Viola ("Dee") Smallwood, 25; he for the third time, she for the first; in Boston...
...years ago when they were both billed to sing and play at a dinner in a conservative English club. They began writing songs which never got any further than the three-piece ladies' band (violin, viola and piano) which...
Made to Measure. For "The Primrose," Young Bill Moennig spent a year and a half studying the violist's playing technique, then almost six months shaping and making the viola. Primrose told him: "I want quality with power so that the music will come out without an obvious wrestling match in front of the public." Moennig tried to blend the measurements of a Strad and an Amati, to get the Amati's mellow roundness with the greater brilliance of the Strad...