Word: well
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...radio for vaudeville, convinced that "as time goes on, the announcer's role will become less & less important." That was the first of more than a dozen exits from the industry-and the only voluntary one-during the quarter-century in which convivial Norman Brokenshire has fought his well-publicized battle with alcohol...
Night after night the Met was packed to the fire-limit (for an alltime record ballet box-office gross of $256,000). In four weeks, Margot Fonteyn and Sadler's Wells had restored as much glitter to Britain's tarnished tiara as any mission the English had sent abroad since the war. In London, cartoonists put Prime Minister Clement Attlee, Ernie Bevin and Sir Stafford Cripps* into tutus, hinted that they might do well to make their next visit to the U.S. on tiptoe...
...like most genuinely successful enterprises, Sadler's Wells had a lot more than luck. It had a hard-driving director in Ninette de Valois, a graduate of Serge Diaghilev's great Ballet Russe. It had a corps de ballet drilled down to the last pas de chat, an ensemble built on the theory that it is as important to have a well-coordinated team as a great star. To put on the great "white ballets"-the classics that England's Royal Opera House company has made its specialty-it had to have both. Says U.S. Choreographer George...
Child with a Future. Margaret Hookham studied in London until she was eight. Her life was little different from that of most well-brought-up, middle-class English girls, except that she was allowed to spend as much time dancing as she liked, and had a governess to tutor her in her other lessons. In 1927, when the family lived briefly in Louisville while Papa Hookham studied American cigarette-making machinery, Margaret could find no ballet teachers, took tap-dancing lessons instead...
...News-Chronicle, "the partial fulfillment of a promise she makes every time she dances." By the time she was 20 she had completed the great classical trilogy with Sleeping Beauty. She was a superbly finished dancer; but it took an accident to make her a great artist as well...