Hurok Brings Us Ballet at Its Best
Hurok Brings Us Ballet at Its Best OPENING AFFAIR The League of Kodelph Sholem tf 7 We * 83rd Street announces the opening dance of the fall tea so ? to take place in the temple I auditorium on...
...of fairy-tale fun, like "Bluebeard...
...There is a fresh spirit in the choreography of Michael Kidd, brought by the "Ballet Associates in America" to the Ballet Theatre...
...What with such performers aa Alicia Markova, Anton Dolin, Andre Kglevsky, Maria Karnilova, Lucia Chase here again with the company, tl ere's talent and rouse enough for a rich ballet season...
...But the author is not alone to blame...
...S. NOT BORN "LIVE LIFE AGAIN...
...reUber g. At the Bclaeco Theatre...
...but Mary Rolfe alone of the company speaks the lines iea> telligently, Perhaps the professor that directed warned them all riot to stress the poetic beat...
...I-el us not be afraid, in the teeth of the balletomanes, to declare that classical bal' is a museum ait, to be enjoyed for its fragrant, delicate, often ingenious and usually deft beauty, '· t ijuite divorced from life in the woild of modern complexity...
...Thus Mark says to the doctor: "1 sent for you because of all the folk in Bison Kun," and while you're trying to figure that out, you must do a mental somersault, for the next words show the intention: "I sent for you because, of all the folk in Bison linn, you were the one might understand...
...J.T...
...she sighs lo him from the cornfield (out of the lighted I dress his father is using for a scarecrow: corny indeed 1...
...We must ¦it mice add, however, that the modei ? dame and Ihe ballet, fu.-.e in fresh creation, like the recent "Fancy Free," which rouse from the nineteenth century wistful beauty to » direct encounter wih and expression of the moods of our own tune...
...for the romping of Michael Kill as the handyman, the grace of Nora Kaye and deftness of John Krina as the princess and her hero...
...they run phrases together, stop in the wrong places, show a complete inability to handle verse matched only by the author's failure to create it...
...Thus, "Swan Lake...
...The musie of Normen Delio Joio captures the spirit of the piece, as the folk around chat or strut until the rehearsal starts, then to two watching lose themselves in the dancing...
...The blank verse, which every character speaks with the aame sorts of simile, unchanged by the speaker's nature, is equally bad for all...
...his father remarries soon...
...S<t and lighting by Albert Jahneon...
...The lad that doesn't come home "until the rooster starts to crow" comes jump upon the crowing because the line needs the extra foot: sense would make it "until the rooster's crowed*' or "—the rooster crows...
...Mark's mother has died, while he's away at school...
...the whimsied charm ? Janet Reed as the bashful aspirant...
...This device affords scope for both satire and beauty...
...in these, in blank verse form, in many details, but especially in high and blasted hope...
...Presented by .S...
...First of Ihe new offerings in this spirit is Michael ? aid's "On Stage...
...Or a gay bit...
...These keep the ballet alive, and add to the savor of its polished art the lung of the current tempo...
...Music will be played by Harry Midler's Radio Hand, and refreshments will be served...
...A charming ami frequent-ly joyous escape...
...Mark, in his morbid love, keeps the wraith of his mother [at hand...
...Hurok Brings Us Ballet at Its Best OPENING AFFAIR The League of Kodelph Sholem tf 7 We * 83rd Street announces the opening dance of the fall tea so ? to take place in the temple I auditorium on Saturday evening, October 'li...
...Presented by S. Hu.ok...
...At the MeCrvpe'i'.·'¦ Theatre...
...and the boy turns upon his father as hla mother's murderer...
...J. T.S...
...Bat a be art hare, the resemblance to "Hamlet'* abruptly ends...
...Among the beneficences which impresari) S. Hurok bestows upon the American public (latest in prospect is the tour through the country of Martha Graham) not the leest is the annual season of the Ballet Theatre at the Metropolitan Opera House...
...Hy Dan Totheroh...
...No pauses In the proper place...
...The public is welcome...
...The most proper place would hav« been before production...
...Directed by Sawyer Falk...
...The handyman at the theatre, and a timid lass that wants to be a dancer, watch a rehearsal ? of "The Captive Princess and Her Hero...
...but a very "Hamlet...
...OUNTIHJL IALLIT BALLST ? ? KATRS...
...No pot-boiler or social problem play is this...
...Beatrice de Neergaard as the servant girl who becomes the second wife is largely spared the ordeal...
Vol. 28 • October 1945 • No. 42
