Word: ballet
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Dates: during 1930-1930
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...famed Orientalist Breasted of the University of Chicago). He is thwarted by handsome Bruce Pelham (James Stewart). The plot then skips 100 years by the simple method of having Mr. Logan fall off a building and lapse into a coma. Best feature of the futuristic sequences is a ballet mecanique, led by blond and birdlike Mr. Dunham. Premiere of The Tiger Smiles was held in Princeton at the handsome new McCarter Theatre. Not since the old casino burned has Princeton had a Triangle first night. Cantankerous graduates may not think the show so funny as Espanola (1922), so tuneful...
...Berlin Staatsoper Orchestra under Hans Pfitzner (Brunswick, $7.50)-Schumann in a graver, more classic mood capably interpreted. Ravel's Daphnis et Chloe by Philippe Gaubert and Orchestre des Concerts Straram (Columbia, $4)-An excellent performance of the symphonic suite commissioned by the late Serge Diaghilev for his Russian Ballet. The originality and finish which marked even Ravel's earliest work is shown in this month's release of his Menuet Antique (Brunswick). Chamber Music: Ravel's Quartet in F by the Krettly Quartet of Paris (Victor, $5)-The popular French composer caught in a deeply personal...
...illegally, knows it is there before the others do. She provoked it one afternoon in the Dolomites. Gemma knows, too, that Caryl's solidness is a much-needed compensation to Sebastian's brilliance. When Sebastian goes off to Paris to conduct the opening of his first ballet, he leaves Gemma in an ecstasy of fear for her sick baby and of anger at Sebastian's incomplete sympathy. The baby dies. It is Caryl who soothes Gemma, takes care of her, distracts her from bitterness and madness...
Overture, "Dedication of the House DeKoven Aria from "Orpheus" Gluck Symphony in B Flat Haydn Rosamunde Ballet Music Schubert Recitative and Aria from "Odysseus" Bruck Prelude to "Die Meistersinger" Wagner...
...will be Karl Krueger, conductor of Seattle's Symphony Orchestra. Later to Hollywood will go the great Italians Bernardino Molinari and Pietro Cimini; and Enrique Fernández Arbós of Madrid. Soloists include: Margaret Matzenauer, Elsa Alsen, Richard Crooks, Kathleen Parlow, Percy Grainger, Alfred Wallenstein. Ballet-arrangers: Mme Albertina Rasch and famed Japanese dance-master Michio...