Word: dancers
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...Happy Reindeer (Capitol). Another of the tape-doctored disks, this one featuring the nasalized singing of "Dancer, Prancer and Nervous" in a message of blue-eyed innocence: "We are Santa's reindeers/ We've learned to sing this year/ So we can tell everyone/ Christmas day is near...
...lost the Kentucky Derby by a nose, the Preakness by four lengths, but Sword Dancer, the little chestnut three-year-old owned by Mrs. Isabel Dodge Sloane, came surging back to twice beat the five-year-old Round Table, racing's biggest money winner, leads the nation's thoroughbreds in earnings this season with $537,004, last week was named horse of the year by the railbird's Bible, the Morning Telegraph...
...Playwright William (Picnic) Inge once again in the Middle West of a generation ago, portraying troubled, torn, anonymous lives. This time, he considers the jangled relationship between a widow (Betty Field) and her 21-year-old son (Warren Beatty), and what happens when an out-of-work tent-show dancer who had once been their maid (Carol Haney) comes to stay with them. The mother-whom the son deeply resents because he is too deeply drawn to her-had been happily married and, because of the boy's attitude, has given up marrying again. Aware of her own dangerous...
...mother he has created an interesting variation on a type, and in mother and son he has clearly sought to probe one of the most difficult and tangled of human relationships. That he has not done so seems due partly to method and partly to mood. The dancer's role, whatever its own interest or its catalyst value, somehow obstructs the son and mother story and keeps it from breathing. Into a short play, Inge has further tossed comedy bits involving theater types and neighbor boys, and a farcical bed-hopping drunk scene. As a result, mother...
...ghost-particularly among haunted show-business autobiographers-Dancer Katherine Dunham's decision to do her own writing is something of a breach of convention. Even more remarkably, she writes with skill and taste, and has made her personal history reflective rather than regurgitative...