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...Giselle. The company's repertory combines the classical tradition and ethnic dance styles. Balanchine's neoclassic ballet Agon floats serenely alongside Geoffrey Holder's mysterious, pulsating Dougla and the virtuoso Russian display pas de deux from Le Corsaire. There is, however, no Giselle. "You'd be surprised how many people feel that because we're not doing Swan Lake that we are not a classical company," Mitchell told TIME'S Rosemarie Tauris. "We don't have enough people or finances to do big 19th century ballets. D.T.H. is not about...
Died. Eddie Dowling, 81, Pulitzer-prizewinning producer and virtuoso of such other theatrical arts as playwrighting, songwriting, directing, dancing and acting; in Smithfield, R.I. Young Eddie, the 14th of 17 children, supplemented the family treasury with pennies earned doing a song-and-dance act in barroom doorways and in prizefight rings between bouts in Woonsocket and Lincoln, R.I. In 1919 he made his Broadway debut in The Velvet Lady, quickly followed by the Ziegfeld Follies of 1919, starring Will Rogers and Fannie Brice. Eventually turning to producing, Dowling in 1937 won acclaim for Shakespeare's Richard II, with Maurice Evans...
...supermarket turnstile. "I pushed it one way, and it would not move," he recalled. "I pushed it the other way. It would not move. I never saw anything like it. I said, 'Goodbye, I'm gone forever. Finito.' " Supermarket employees finally managed to free the imprisoned virtuoso after a 15-minute struggle with the balky machinery, however, and Vladimir survived to play before a sellout crowd at the 3,100-seat Seattle Opera House...
Berman is a virtuoso whose blinding technique appears an easy rival to that of Vladimir Horowitz. Yet Berman's is a humble kind of virtuosity that is not afraid of understatement. His debut, the start of a 15-concert tour of nine states, occurred in a walled-off end of Millett Hall, the Miami U. sports arena-which had surprisingly good acoustics. A burly bear with stooped shoulders, ginger-colored beard and long brown hair that waves up at the neck, Berman came out looking grim and tense. Once he was at the keyboard, all illusions of nerves...
There was no shortage of popular culture either. The Yiddish theater, which Howe shrewdly compares to Italian opera (where the emphasis is on virtuoso performance rather than content), was not shy about amending Shakespeare. Romeo and Juliet was set in a Polish village, and Friar Laurence was recast as a Reform rabbi. The famous performers originating in the ghetto included Al Jolson, the Marx Brothers, George Jessel, George Burns, Eddie Cantor, Sophie Tucker, Fanny Brice...