"One Touch of Venus" Livens Up Broadway
"One Touch of Venus" Livens Up Broadway This Week on the Stage By JOSEPH T. SHIPLEY , IA L LET AT ITS BIST S. Huxok present* 'Ballet Theatre" at the Metropolitan Opera Howie. In usual fine...
...A . Jota, a Valeneiana, retains its Characteristics with every performer...
...the individual dancer may vary, in com-, hination or in detail, b.ut cannot dettrmine its gestures and move...
...Thursday, October 21, 8:46 p. m...
...to foe grasped by such be-' holders as win accordant mood.*: As a consequence, the value of .any modern dance depends entirely upon the value of the performer, . at the moment of the) dance—entirely, for its qualities beyond any fleeting beauty rise through such universal appeal as the dancer's own genius may infuse...
...Conducted fay Kurtz and danced by Massine, it carries the intertwined lovers from marketplace to the official's home...
...But the spell is from fairyland — hence Venus falls in love with the man that wakens her...
...it echoes the procedures of an aristocratic elite oat of tune with our turbulent times...
...The remoteness of the Oriental ways requires a bridge from our mind to theirs...
...Saturday, October 23, 8:45 p. m.: All-Tchaikovsky Program...
...Outstanding, indeed, is the work of the whole Ballet Theatre, which ever more persons are discovering, to watch and'to enjoy...
...Soloist: Tossy Spivakovsky, violinist...
...on Broadway) the chief figure is a barber...
...Invasion...
...John Boles keeps light the pseudo-artistic millionaire...
...and now the Ballet Theatre brings beauty of color and moving form and music to the MetroplTtan...
...True to life," the screen attraction, features Mary Martin...
...This was followed by the familiar "Lilac Garden," a lovely, wishful rouse...
...First was the "Capriccio Espajmol," with Maasine's choreography Spanish—spiced by Argentinita, a gay and lively number, its highest moments the Fandango of Lucia Chase and Dimitri Romanoff...
...their sallies and thrusts are often subtle, usually deft...
...He loves a lass who loves an artist who loves sm aristocrat who's wed to aa official...
...Agnes de Mille,' without the opportunities for fresh (almost virgin) humor - of her triumph "Oklahoma," s provides lively and effectively varied routine, and two.ballets...
...PHANTOM" AND HEW STAGE SHOW AT CAPITOL "Phantom of the Opera," brand new and in technicolor, and this time a musical instead of a horror story, is current at the Capitol Theatre...
...In any field, those works rise into the domain of art that through the expression of the artist capture some aspect of the people's soul...
...And the statue he brings to life happens to belong to an amorous millionaire, who thinks he's artistic...
...This sort of dancjng lacks the firm basis that permits continuous growth in power, a dancer maturing through long years, successors developing in her train...
...No symbols, no patterns of movement, have yet emerged, which are generally accepted as the inevitable and fit manifestation of a specific idea, so that all dancers use them, and all spectators understand...
...The outstanding exponent of the ethnological dance is La Meri, whose life has been devoted to the racial dances of the various peoples of the earth...
...The program, was completed with Anton Dolin's "Princess Aurora," with its away opportunities for ballet virtuosity, to Tchaikowsky's music Outstanding was the new "Rose Adagio," with consummate toe-work by Alicia Markova, and Dolin himself as Prince Charming...
...Bernard Rogers...
...TedBy Hart is on hanfl with bis abrupt, loud but laughable ways...
...Friday, October 22, 2:30 p. m.: All-Tchaikovsky Program...
...Heading the cast of the widelyread story, filmed in Technicolor, is Roddy McDowell, with Donald Crisp, Dame May Whitty, Edmund Gwenn, Nigel Bruce and Elsa Lsnchester...
...there are publie presentations every Tuesday, the next on Oct...
...Broadway is back on its feet...
...Symphony No...
...Isadora Duncan, through the potency of her spirit, sent across the footlights a surge of the universal impulsions of meaning behind the beauty of the dance...
...Symphony No...
...The ethnological dance is wholly of .other sort, Rooted in the lives of the people, it is a ripe expression of their basic ways...
...He also happens to be engaged...
...ONE TOUCH OF VENUS...
...Such works as "Rodeo," on the other hand,' gather into the more formal flow of art rhythms and movements of the American folk dance...
...Prom 'The Whitelaw Savory-Foundation of Modern...
...Such vitality as the ballet , retains in our times resides rather in the elasticity of the term, which allows the inclusion of other forms...
...the second, of nymphs and fauns on Ozone Heights, carries even VeSus away...
...Home," Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer's film version of the celebrated novel by the late Major Erie Knight.'continues for a second week at Radio City Music Hall...
...and sentiment murmurs to "Speak Low...
...once in a while they fall heavy—and then, as t&ough in fear of such heaviness, they tarn more obviously upon aojge venery But Venus herself iejnry Martin...
...Nelson Eddy has the leading role, with Claude Rains as the "Phantom" and the new screen blone beauty, Susanna Foster as the girl...
...1 still, each of these is a unique expression of the individual performer...
...Lyrics op* Ogden Nash...
...Symphony No...
...fiery work woke wide enthusiasm...
...Franchot Tone, Diek Powell and Victor Moore...
...4 in F minor...
...REHIND THE RISING SUN" OPENS AT PALACE The long-awaited New York premiere showing of RKO Radio Pictures drama "Behind the Ris> ing Sun" is now holding forth at the RKO Palace Theatre.' Besides Margo, "Behind the Rising Sun" features Tom Neal, J. Carrol Naish, Robert Ryan and Gloria Holden...
...Pat Henmng, farmer comedy star of George White's "Scandals," is billed as an extra added attraction...
...Philharrrwruc-Symphony Society Artur Rodzinski, Musical Director...
...but daily actions are formalized, their essence captured, in the dance, which thus affords a direct approach to the race-spirit...
...With bubbling humor, lively costumes, broad caricature— and excellent dancing, Maasine's ballet, with music by Lecoq arranged by Ef rem Kurtz, took immediate place as a successful addition te the ballet repertoire...
...The premiere of "Mademoiselle Angot" brought a new delight...
...Polonaise from...
...March to the Scaffold Dream ef a Witches' Sabbath...
...As the millionaire's secretary, Paula Laurence is' both caustic and catchy...
...In usual fine form, S. Hurok brings the dance season to its start...
...TRUE TO UFE" OPE MS AT PARAMOUNT—INK SPOTS HEAD STAGE SHOW In conjunction with the engagement of "True to Life" at the booked aa all-star in-person show headed by The Ink Spots, America's popular quartet, and Tony Pastor aad his orchestra...
...Featured are Patti Powers sad Johnny (Paradiddle Joe) Morris and Toy and Wing, Chinese dance stylists...
...Venus' "I'm a Stranger Here Myself" wonders how love-ways have altered since Hejen took Troy...
...The "modern dance," nonetheless, differs fundamentally from the other types, in that it is an individual expression...
...Violin Com*-erto in D major...
...From such works aa "Three Virgins and a Devil," though performed by a ballet troupe, the scissors-legs in air tend to disappear, and the toepoint pyrotechnics: these dances draw instead upon the older and more universal tradition of pantomime, that from ancient Rome through the middle ages has unceasingly welled, not from the leisured patterns of the court, but from the lusty feelings of the people...
...Still, each dancer indicates melancholy, say, or aspiration, in her especial fashion...
...t Ballet is a product of a court society...
...S>me of the performers have the usic start, and dance as it impels them, so that each occasion is unique...
...Overture-Fantasy, "Romeo and Juliet...
...One Touch of Venus" makes the whole house grin...
...After an early but stumbling start, the season has felt "One Touch of Venus" and thrilled...
...present in public programs...
...Two Movements from Symphonic Fantastique, Berlioz...
...Soloist, Zino Francescatti, violinist...
...Presented by Cheryl Crawford...
...Coming Concerts at Carnegie Hall: Sunday afternoon, October 11, 3 o'clock (1st concert of "Even" Sunday Series, broadcast over CBS...
...Here (as in "One Touch of Venus," just come for a long run...
...Here and there, after the war, some court may recapture a brittle brilliance, the glitter of absolutism, the polish and file of form, that will make the ballet « living part of its being, a natural expression of its ways—as it was of imperial France and czarist Russia...
...Overture-Fantasy, "Romeo and Juliet...
...The music is unfailingly pleasant, with several pieces, for which Ogden Nash has supplied pert phrases, that should be known...
...Staged by Elia Kazan...
...nienU.Thus even a mediocre performer must reveal a glimpse of , the wealth of meaning and beauty that is in the dance itself...
...Music by Kurt Weill...
...Thus full appreciation of any art involves an understanding of the folk that have produced it...
...His presentation of Katharine Dunham has been extended indefinitely, as her...
...MUSIC HALL SHOW HOLDS' . Acclaimed by critics and audiences, "Lassie Gome...
...for the dances this is built by the genial words of La Meri, whose informal explanations bring the main movements within the range of our fuller appreciation...
...Borrowing a magic ring from the Orient and the fairy tale, recalling Pygmalion and leaping beyond the flight of "I Married an Angel," the present musical brings to life again no less than the goddess of k>ve.' With the usual effects.'of her presence...
...Bo<sk by S. J. Perelman and Ogren Nash...
...while an accomplished and spirited artist baa a firm substructure of the race-growth upon which to erect her own achievement...
...and on to a fancy ball, colorful and amusing...
...Eug-en Onegin...
...5 in C minor, Beethoven...
...To most persons, it will more and more appear as a museum piece, a porcelain survival...
...Fundamentally, there is no "modern dance...
...but what became of her Isadorables...
...And it seems this year that the costumes are more harmoniously colorful, the dancing more gaily deft, than ever...
...Each dancer not only chooses her own themes and erects her own choreography, but makes her own movements to fit her meaning and mood...
...The two suftors are literate, as readers of The Now Yorker would say...
...but there is no spectacle1 more depressing than that of an earnest but ineffectual -modern dancer—and this includes some pf the known ones, in, their less happy work...
...He happens to be a~ barber...
...At the Imperial Theatre...
...Violin Concerto, Baatok...
...she is answered (indirectly) in the barbershop quartet "The Trouble With Women.1*' "Way Out West in Jersey" it another claimant for the humor honors...
...PALPABLY FINE...
...4 in F minor...
...In the Ethnological Theatre, recently, the first of this season's recitals packed the house...
...knows as the My-heart-be- , longs-to-Daddy girt, enp carries along, here, with an seen ingenuousness that makes bar descent from heaven, if not credible, still most decidedly to be hailed...
...On this the authors weave the threads of their happy humor, to the delightful music of Kurt Weill, with a colorful group of dancers, led by Sono Osato, in movements designed by 3be lightfooted and gay spirited Agnes de Mille...
...Art" to' a bus terminal, a barbershop (m gilt of gold), to prison, to Ozone Heights if you please, she breaks all chains and hearts, until once more she's turned to stone...
...Its forms are set by the people...
...there sjre only modern dancers...
...Opening night brought a varied program...
...26 at 9 p. m. La Meri and her company of Natya Dancers—the equal of any dance group recently seen in New York— present dances of Spain and South America, but especially of the Orient: India, Java, Bali and other lands now brought close t o us by the war...
...Dances by Agnes de Mille...
...Duke Ellington's orchestra headlines the stage show, and Lena Home, torrid beauty of "Thousands Cheer," "Cabin in the Sky" and "Stormy Weather" is the extra added attraction in person...
...we watch Argentinita to discover, not what it is, but how she will perform it...
...and Kenny Bakes* as the entangled barber carries Venus smoothly along...
...Others in the east include Mabel Paige and William De merest...
...A look at the Bali ways, at the Museum of Modern Art, shocks one with the sense of how far we are from their modes, not just of living, but of thinking, of interpreting the simplest actions...
...The majority, of course, establish a number of specific dances, which they...
...The Ethnological Dance - Expression of Folk Art ; >v joswh t. swmr This is, in praise of the ethnological dance...
...In the generation after these poineers, the fervor of Martha Graham may translate her meanings into universal forms...
Vol. 26 • October 1943 • No. 42
