Word: angelically
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...danced the part first in 1938, turned up as Venus in droopy net stockings, ruffled corselet and a blonde wig suggesting Gorgeous George playing Lady Godiva. As Juno, Ballerina Viola Essen conveyed the bored allure of a Minsky stripper at the first morning show. And as Minerva, Ballet Theater Angel Lucia Chase achieved the air of a brave but discouraged workhorse whose limbs simply can no longer negotiate that hill. In the end, Dancer de Mille's tired but hefty seductiveness, climaxing in an elephantine cancan step, won the contest of the three disgraces...
...COCKTAIL PARTY (Decca; $9.98) and MURDER IN THE CATHEDRAL (Angel; $9.98). Eliot's two best plays: the first in a prancing recitation by the original New York cast (Alec Guinness, Cathleen Nesbitt, Robert Flemyng, Eileen Peel); the second read with less than majesty but more than dignity by Robert Donat and the Old Vic company...
...IMPORTANCE OF BEING EARNEST (Angel; $9.98). Dame Edith Evans, Sir John Gielgud, Pamela Brown and Celia Johnson give Wilde's farce a reading that may never be matched...
...tragic fervor. ¶ Pillar's British Choreographer Antony Tudor, 46, who was originally "curator" of the company's Modern English wing, was on hand last week to dance the part of Hagar's beloved. ¶ Lucia Chase, late-fortyish, Ballet Theater's longtime wealthy angel and firm guiding hand, was on her toes again in a ceremonial appearance as Hagar's spinsterish elder sister. ¶ Guest Ballerina Alicia Markova, 44, who has been a star ever since the days when a ballerina without a Russian name was no ballerina at all (she was born Alicia...
...suggestive lyrics (spelled "leer-ics" by trade-sheet Variety, which has launched a campaign to clean them up). Result: a welter of hits in the r.-and-b. idiom (including five of the first eight top tunes). Sample hits: Sincerely (McGuire Sisters; Coral), Tweedlee Dee (Georgia Gibbs; Mercury), Earth Angel (CrewCuts, Mercury). Even such stars as Jo Stafford (I Got a Sweetie; Columbia) and Eddie Fisher (Just One More Time; Victor) are showing some rock-'n'-roll influence...