Word: waltzed
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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This time petite Joan Roberts and bellowing Harry Stockwell have been joined in a slightly better than mediocre musical combining history and romance. The program lists Vienna as the scene, but a waltz strain now and then is all that is Viennese in the show. Aside from the costumes and snappy Austro-Hungarian salutes, it might take place in Chicago...
...little old man in a pink Tyrolean shirt played the piano with trembling hands. When the two Allied war correspondents swayed to his lilting Merry Widow Waltz, tears came to the old man's eyes. "Then the world has not forgotten me," he said...
...Calliboga and "The Ruler of the Queen's Navee," but he plays only Bill Robinson--the man with the magic feet and the friendly voice and the glorious smile. Whether he's just plain tap dancing, or humming "I Am the Monarch of the Sea," or imitating a 1902 waltz, he steps the show. Long doesn't have too much to do in the play. He concentrates on his own special variety of modern dancing--the slinky gesture and the ecstatic leap that made him famous as Sportin' Life in "Porgy and Bess...
George Gershwm: Show Tunes (Andre Kostelanetz and his orchestra; Columbia, 8 sides). Gershwin's impressionism made sweet and fancy as a Strauss waltz. Performance: fair. Recording: good...
From their 20-year-repertory, the pair danced the pastoral Tillers of the Soil, the romantic Josephine and Hippolyte. St. Denis soloed her Indian Rajput Nautch, and Shawn whirled through 540 gyrations in his Mevlevi Dervish. At the end, after a Brahms waltz, which showed her still-youthful white body shimmering under turquoise veiling, he carried her off stage, just as he had done many a time long ago. One sentimentalist in the audience whispered: "Maybe they'll go home together." It was sentiment, but not romance, that had brought Ruth St. Denis from California to help Shawn raise...