Word: fifield
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Technically, the dancing was almost always good, but it was seldom exciting. Australian-born Elaine Fifield, sometimes touted as the heiress apparent to the senior ballet's Margot Fonteyn, showed off flawless timing and technique. But at 21 she lacks the fire, brilliance and riveting personality that distinguish a prima ballerina from a principal dancer. Lithuanian-born Co-Star Svetlana Beriosova had elegance and style, but not the breathtaking precision of either Fonteyn or the New York City Ballet's Maria Tallchief. The male dancers were strong, but none yet looked like another Eglevsky (New York City Ballet...
Finishing the evening in their native element, the Theatre Ballet put on Pineapple Poll--another premiere--adapted from Gilbert's Bab Ballad. True to the Gilbert and Sullivan formula, tragedy and comedy have play, in this case on board the H.M.S. Hot Cross Bun. Elaine Fifield shows great talent for the comically forlorn gesture in her futile attempt to attract the Captain (David Blair), who keeps a crew of ladies in disguise...
Promptly the Rev. James W. Fifield of Los Angeles' 4,200-member First Congregational Church (largest Congregational church in the U.S.) organized a fight against the council's ruling. As a test, the Cadman Memorial Church in Brooklyn, N.Y. filed suit, and for 23 court days and 3,000 pages of testimony Justice Stein brink listened to the subdued wrangling of ministerial witnesses...