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Under the most severe misapprehension was an unidentified sightseeing freshman who tried to leave the Farnsworth Room through a full-length pane of glass. The glass, apparently designed with this in mind, withstood the shock, but the freshman suffered assorted head bruises and a bloody nose...

Author: By Jack R. W. spratte, | Title: 7200 Swarm Into Lamont On First Day | 1/4/1949 | See Source »

...Garden Opera House last week, Londoners stamped their feet in the foot-numbing chill. Some had been waiting six hours for the gallery door to open. Backstage, Choreographer Frederick Ashton, in a skirt and a high wig, rushed around with last-minute instructions. The occasion was the first new full-length, classic-style ballet Western Europe had seen in 50 years...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cinderella in London | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

Most of the calls were for the Sadler's Wells top choreographer, lean, 42-year-old Freddie Ashton, whom London critics were quick to praise as "the first Englishman to devise a full-length ballet." He had used most of the gay, though sometimes brittle and bony score that Prokofiev had composed on a Kremlin commission during the war, but he had taken nothing of the Bolshoi Theater's spectacular and even longer ballet. A typical difference: while Ashton has his hero stay close to home, the Russians sent their Prince Charming chasing around the world after...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Cinderella in London | 1/3/1949 | See Source »

...Comstock Notestein, Radcliffe President emeritus, will speak at the reception, and a full-length portrait of Dean Cronkhite will be presented to the College, William Abbott Cheever was the artist...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Radcliffe | 11/12/1948 | See Source »

Falk and Rome are desperate. They want it back. It's a full-length female leg, delicately covered with nylon and embellished with a blue lace-and-ribbon garter at the upper extremity...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Sophomores Lose as Indians Take Gam for Victory Prize | 10/25/1948 | See Source »

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