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THE EVENING STAB, Washington, D. C.
WEDNESDAY,. JULY 14, XMi
The Passing Show
Ballet Really a Lively Art
As It's Lived by Nora Kaye
By Joy Carmody
Ballerina Nora Kaye came to luncheon carrying her ballet
•Uppers.
No, she wasn’t barefoot. She wore shoes, the kind the weU
dressed woman wears when she dines out. The ballet footgear,
which she carried in the smallest shoe box we ever saw, repre
sented a dilemma. Miss Kaye*
was trying to find time to stitch (
a surface of soft wool yarn over f
the silken toes of the shoes be- ,
fore dancing in them that night. .
“So people with ears as sharp
as yours will not hear the tap j
of our toes against the stage,” |
Miss Kaye explained. ,
“Not really,” we said.
“No. not reaUy,” she admitted, j
“A great ballerina did it to pro- ;
vide a cushion, and possibly to ,
make turns easier. Now we all
do it. We're sheep, I suppose.”
** * *
Miss Kaye, as verbaUy articu
late as she is pantomimically
eloquent on a stage, is Ballet
Theater’s principal baUerina.
One perhaps should say she is
“a'gain” the world renowned
group’s top feminine dancer.
She took a three-year sabbatical
in 1951, came back this summer
with the group now so brightly
launched on a 16-program date
at Carter Barron amphitheater.
Save for this leave, she and Bal
let Theater have been together
from their beginnings, 15 years
ago.
Each takes an equivalent de
light in their reunion.
** * *
Because they can do such
incredibly graceful, perilous
things with pretty much the
same body other people use for
falling down stairs, baUerinas
cannot escape certain prying
questions. One of these is: What
do you weigh? Miss Kaye weighs
108, to the professional satisfac
tion of Igor Youskevitch and
John Kriza who spend so much
of- their artistic lives lifting,
spinning, and catching her. She
is 5 feet 3*/2 inches tall, no
matter how much taller she
seems to you who see her poised
so often on her toes.
The only weight problem she
Where and When
Current Theater Attractions
And Time of Showing
Stage.
Arena—" Room Service”; 8:30
pjn.
Carter Barron Amphitheater—
Ballet Theater, 8:30 p.m.
National “South Pacific”;
2:20 and 8:20 p.m.
Olney—“V en u s Observed”;
8:40 p.m.
, Screen.
Ambassador “The High and
the Mighty”? 1:10, 3:55, 6:35 and
9:25 p.m.
Capitol "Garden of Evil”;
11:20 a.m., 1:25, 3:35, 5:40, 7:45
and 9:50 p.m
Colony “Tomorrow Is Too
Late”; 6:15, 8:05 and 9:55 p.m.
Columbia—“ Men of the Fight
ing Lady”; 11:25 a.m., 1:30, 3:35,
6:40, 7:50 and 9:55 p.m.
Dupont—“ The Captain’s Para
dise”; 1, 2:45, 4:30, 6:15. 8:05
and 9:55 p.m.
Keith’s—“ The Caine Mutiny”;
10:20 am.. 12:40, 2:55. 5:15, 7:35
and 9:55 p.m.
Little—" Limelight”; 6:20 and
9:05 p.m
MacArthpr—“The Long Mem
ory”; 6:15. 8:05 and 9:55 p.m.
Metropolitan—“ The High and
the Mighty”: 11:10 a.m., 1:45.
4’25. 7 anc. 9:40 p.m.
Ontario—“lndiscretion of An
American Wife”: 1. 2:25. 3:50,
fr:2o. 6:45, 8:15 and 9:45 p.m
Palace "Demetrius and the
Gladiators”; 11 a.m. 1:05, 3:15,
5:25, 7:35 and 9:45 p.m.
Playhouse—“ Knock on Wood”;
11:15 am., 1:20, 3:20, 5:25, 7:30
and 9:40 p.m.
Plaza—“ One Summer of Hap
piness”; 11 a.m„ 12:30, 2:20,
4:10, 6. 7:50 and 9:45 p.m.
Trans-Lux—“Man With A Mil
lion"; 11:20 a.m., 1:05, 2:50,
4:40, 6:25. 8:10 and 9:55 p.m.
Warner—“ This Is Cinerama”;
2:30 and 8:40 pm.
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ever has is getting too thin. This
is infrequent. Most of the time
she just goes on weighing 108,
give or take a few ounces.
A relaxed gossip with Miss
Kaye while she nibbles her way
through a Raleigh Hotel cold
plate covers a lot of ground,
pretty much the whole world In
fact. A few days after leaving
here July 27, for instance, she
will be in Tokyo. She will dance
there in a classical ballet com
pany for six weeks.
Why Tokyo?
“Well, I know Europe so much
better than the Orient—l’d like
to find out more about the lat
ter.” She has been in Tokyo
before, and other 'Japanese
cities, too. Naturally the subject
of Kabuki dance-drama came up.
“I like it,” Miss Kaye says. “I
had a very intelligent guide
through its mysteries, thanks be.
James A. Michener. He is an au
thority on that, too, among all
other things about the Pacific
side of the world.”
Incidentally, speaking of geog
raphy of which she has seen so
much, Miss Kaye still prefers
New York to any other place.
She was born there, is most at
home there, and if she ever stops
dancing, that’s where she will be.
** * *
Some ballerinas, among them
her best friend, Margot Fonteyn
of Sadler’s Wells, set quitting
dates for themselves. Miss Fon
teyn, for instance, has fixed 40
as a tentative target. Not Miss
Kaye. She’s never given the sub
ject more than the most passing
thought.
She thinks of rest now and
then, but when she gets a
vacation as in the case of Ballet
Theater’s hiatus from August to
October, she goes dancing off to
Tokyo. Sometimes, she does not
know what to make of a girl like
that.
She’s delighted with the soar
ing popularity of ballet, would
like to see more new ballets cre
ated, and wishes they did not
cost so much. She knows of
one composer-choreographer who
charged $2,000 for writing a 12-
bar insert in a standard ballet.
Her own favorite among the
multitude she does so brilliantly?
"‘Pillar of Fire,’ I suppose,”
she says. “It was done for me—
but I like them all.”
* • * •
"Outdoor ballet, as at Carter
Barron amphitheater which is
being packed these nights, is as
agreeable to the company a$ to
audiences.
“But, it has its odd problems,”
Miss Kaye admits. “We are not
aecustomed, for instance, to so
much oxygen per gulp. It requires
, adjustment. As for the big stage,
dancers like room. But those long
entrances and exits are different,
i They also require adaptation, of
a sort.”
Miss Kaye for all the chaste
> mask of art she wears while
dancing is a girl whose sense of
I humor you keep hearing about
from her friends.
Our favorite glint of it came
when the chatter got to mar-
I riage.
“I tried it—twice,” Miss Kaye
reflected. “My second husband
I I was Issac Stern. We seldom
, I saw each other. He was always
booked one way, I another. After
• two seasons of this divergence,
, we were divorced. Ironically,
shortly afterward we met in
: Tokyo, finally booked in the
I same direction.”
Having started with shoes, we
■ might as well finish the same
, way. In Miss Kaye’s case, a
pair lasts a little better than
■ one performance. She brought
, 13 pairs for her 15 performahees
here. She figures to have used
; up 11 of them.
Incidentally, there’s a funny
■ / •
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NO CAtISE FOR ALARM—His inspection of the plane’s tail
section is no need for any fear among the passengers, explains
co-pilot John Wayne to passengers David Brian and Claire
Trevor, in the film, “The High and the Mightyshowing at
the Metropolitan and Ambassador.
Hollywood Diary:
Zurich Night Liss
Pleases Tourist
— By Sheilah Graham ■.
ZURICH.
This, the biggest city in Swit
zerland, is certainly not the
gayest. The law decrees that
all. restaurants and places of
amusement must be closed by
midnight. Which is all right
by me—l hate staying up late.
trip was worth making,
if only for the white chocolate
bars "and the out-of-this-world
cherry jam.
Ava Gardner was unpopular,
I learned in Rome, while she
was making her movie there.
Even her Metro pals were fed
up and finally left her alone
with her bullfighter, Luis Miguel
Dominguin.
The best-looking man in
Rome is Harry Cushing, owner
of the excellent American-lan
guage weekly, “Rome American
News.” And not because he
bought my column while we
lunched at the golf club outside
the city! Harry, a wealthy
American, has his fingers on
everything that’s happening in
Rome and Paris.
** * *
And from Paris I’ve heard
since leaving there that Prince
Aly Khan and his father, the
Aga, own 19 houses between
them—but when Gene Tierney
started telling Aly how to run
the Paris house, there was you
know-what to pay, and it caused
one of the few quarrels between
Aly and Gene who are really in
love.
More about that anti-climac
tic Elsa Maxwell party, which
seems to have been universally
voted the most boring of the
year. Not only did the Duke and
Duchess of Windsor fail to ap
pear, but the Duke of Edinburgh,
who was invited, was also con
spicuous by his absence. And
some of the guests tell me they
were given titles such as Princes
This and Count That on the
place cards. To impress the
press, I presume.
** * *
And now, from Hollywood;
Howard Hughes flew one of
the latest jet planes, and the
first thing he did after landing
explanation for that 15 per
formances. She asked for a
night off while here, so she
could take some friends to the
ballet. She found they are out
of town.
So, she’ll go to the ballet by
herself that night.
was call his studio and tell them
to release “Jet Pilot”—the John J
Wayne starrer. Hughes said that, !
with the rapid progress being 1
made in perfecting jets, the
movie* would be out of date ’
within a year.
Robert Mitchum will not be l
forming his own independent
producing company, but will join
forces with Jane Russell and
Bob Waterfleld in their Russ
fleld Co. when his contract at
RKO winds up next month.
Howard Hughes will probably
get him for one a year for 10
years, though.
Dick Powell reports from lo
cation in Utah with “The Con
queror” that Pedro Armendariz
is okay after that fall from his
horse. “He lost three teeth and
his lips are swollen,” said Dick.
“But I’ll put him in a fight
scene which will explain his
bruised and battered face in the
picture.”
** * *
John Wayne’s son, Pat, walked
out of Warner Brothers with a
part in “Mr. Roberts." . . . Wil
liam Holden will make his first
television appearance on the Lux
Show to tub-thump “Sabrina.”
Spencer Tracy writes from
Europe that he’s coming home
for “A Bad Day at Black Rock.”
Sounds like trouble—but it’s only
the title of his next movie. . . .
There are 4,853 drive-in theaters
in the United States.
Actor Richard Boone has a
stable of race horses that keeps
him busy when he’s not making
pictures. . . . Guess which TV
personality sponsors hate most
to compete against? Bishop Ful
ton Sheen.
Sam Goldwyn is leaning to
ward vistavision Paramount’s
wide-screen technique, for his
“Guys and Dolls'” . . . Dan
“China Smith” Duryea received
a rickshaw from one of his TV
fans. . . . And Claudette Col
bert’s TV show will, be in your
living room this fall.
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The Open Air Is Congenial
To a New Set of Ballets
By Horry MocArthur
As has been duly noted al
ready, the ballet and its setting
are felicitously met at the'Carter
Barron Amphitheater. This was
demonstrated again last night
by Ballet Theater, as the group
headed by Nora Kaye turned
to another set of numbers not
previously done during this sum
mer engagement.
Dancing must have been hard
work in last night’s humidity,
but sitting perfectly still and
watching it wasn’t, especially
after the temperature dropped to
about 90. There is something
about green trees in Rock Creek
Park that .makes you think you
are getting cooler whether or
not it is true. And trees pro
vided the natural backdrop for
three of the four ballets done
last night.
It was a varied program. It
included the playful “Interplay,”
the story ballet, “Jardin aux
Lilas;” the classically abstract
“Theme and Variations” and the
modern comedy hit, “Fancy
Free.” The dancers were ably
abetted in all of this al fresco
entrechat enterprise by the or
chestra under the supervision
of the National Symphony, con
ducted by Joseph Levine.
♦* * *
“Jardin aux Lilas” probably
fit as well into last night’s set
ting as‘ it ever will into any.
There may not have been any
natural lilas around but that
leafy green backdrop certainly
looks enough like a jardin to
please anyone.
This ballet, choreographed by
Anthony Tudor to Ernest Chaus
son’s “Poeme,” has a story of
frustration to tell. Its central
-figure is a girl about to embark
upon a marriage of convenience,
who is trying for one last clan
destine moment with the man
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also populated at the moment
by her husband-to-be and a girl
out of his past, the traffic gets
a little heavy for anything very
satisfactory in the farewell-my
sweet line.
“Jardin” was danced quite
handsomely last night by Miss
Kaye, the troupe’s present lead
ing ballerina. She had some fine
support, too, from John Kriza,
as the lover, and Lupe Serrano,
as the episode from the past.
“Theme and Variations” is
another ballet which goes well
with this outdoor setting. One
of the Balanchine attempts to
translate music (Tchaikowsky’s
Suite No. 3 for Orchestra) into
motion, this one comes off
better than most. It is brightly
costumed and it was danced in
sprightly fashion last night, with
Lupe Serrano and Igor Youske
vitch in the leading roles.
Any ballerina, incidentally,
ought to demand that her pas
de deux be performed before a
backdrop of dark green trees
with male dancers clad in blue.
Miss Serrano, in bright yellow,
seemed to be taking off mirac
ulously on her own now and
then, as Mr. Youskevitch faded
into the surroundings.
“Interplay,” based upon leap
frog and other children’s games,
goes well in the open air, too',
and got things off to a lively,
light-hearted start last night.
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spirit by Mr. Kriza, Helen
Murielle, Ruth Ann Koesun,
Christine Mayer and coftipany,
the familiar impressionistic bar
room set was used. The dance
was in the right place, though.
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reads: “Time: The present, a hot
summer night.”
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