Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...meal, worked from reel to reel. Down to his last $17, he was rescued by Brazil's President Juscelino Kubitschek, who told the army to get him some electrical equipment. For his Orpheus, Camus hired a handsome Brazilian futebol player named Breno Mello, for his Eurydice an unknown dancer from Pittsburgh with serenely lovely looks and a name that nobody could possibly forget: Marpessa Dawn. "The poverty," says Camus, "was not such a bad thing in the long run. I spent so much time trailing around on foot, just looking, that in the end I had a deep awareness...
Nijinsky's Complaint. No point of style or appearance was too small for his attention. His friend, famed Dancer Vaslav Nijinsky, once complained that Salzedo did not make enough show with his hand movements. A harpist's hands should be like a dancer's toes, said Nijinsky: "Of all the instrumentalists, you are the one to be looked at when you play." Salzedo formalized hand movements into a series of flowing gestures, tells his students to emphasize esthetic as well as musical qualities. Says he: "Good looks are an important requisite for an aspiring harpist...
With wide-eyed envy, the first episode of Sweet Success reported the rise of Don Loper, a onetime ballet dancer, who gives up the stage for dress designing. To Producer Douglas, the critics' sneers seemed almost unAmerican. "Something's wrong in this country right now," says he. "With the beatniks and all, it seems fashionable to be a failure. In Sweet Success I'm going to show people who are successful because they worked hard, and people who live well because they enjoy...
Holiday in Japan (at the New Frontier) is an Oriental variety show imported by Steve Parker, travel-happy husband of Cinemactress Shirley MacLaine (TIME, June 22). Ballad-belting M.C. James Shigeta imitates Elvis Presley with accurate Occidental accent, Belly Dancer Rie Taniuchi (34-21-35) oscillates through a Latin American cha cha cha, and the Nagata Kings pantomime a superb slapstick parody of baseball. What was missing from the start, by Vegas standards, was a satisfactory supply of nudes. But by week's end a number called Kyoto Doll was turning nightly into a rousing scene of near rape...
...Feste of Alvin Epstein is outstanding. But even his performance is overshadowed by those of the two sidekicks Berghof invented for him. The Dancing Zany in entrusted to Geoffrey Holder, a 28-year-old six-and-a-half-foot mine of talent: dancer, choreographer, singer, actor, painter, composer, writer, photographer, book illustrator, and folklorist. This show draws on only the first three of his many gifts. Dressed in a striking white costume with mismatched red and orange gloves and stockings, he does a thousand and one things with skill and vigor. The Singing Zany is played by Russell Oberlin...