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...that Nutcracker has achieved its most phenomenal popularity. The first full-length version in the U.S. was staged by the San Francisco Ballet in 1944. This year there are at least 150 professional and amateur productions. Kids everywhere vie for a role in the ballet. When they get one, they can pose problems. One San Francisco production features a box of bonbons, played by very small children. Every year some tot goes on a crying jag. Last Christmas one child conquered her stage fright by downing a quick pizza and a hot pastrami. She could barely waddle...
...major shortcomings. The film lends itself to unflattering comparisons with recent movies of a similar ilk but of more polish and originality. The particular setting may seem a bit novel, but its anarchic resolution seems more appropriate to one of those Night Gallery travesties than to a full-length feature film. Pointless as Carrie may appear, a screening could at least lead to a trip down Memory Lane. Think about that Duckling you never asked to the prom some time; there just might have been a little Carrie buried down there...
...dress discreetly, speak circumspectly and plod patiently up the executive ladder, Robert A. Lutz, the president of German Ford, cuts a rather exotic figure. He wears elegant London-made suits and colorful shirts, rides motorcycles, collects and personally restores old cars, and speaks provocatively enough to have rated a full-length interview in the May German edition of Playboy (sample quote: "There is nothing rational about the automobile industry. There is no other aspect of business that depends so much on psychology, prejudice and image"). Now the 44-year-old Lutz is moving into a new job: last week...
...little and gamble a lot." In the early 1900s, he and another immigrant furrier, Marcus Loew, gambled on the fledgling moving picture business-first with a string of penny arcades featuring flickering, hand-cranked "peep-shows," later with storefront nickelodeons. Convinced that the movies' future lay in full-length dramas, Zukor in 1912 split with Loew, who later became one of the founders of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, and invested $35,000 in Queen Elizabeth, a cranky, French-made potboiler that starred an aging Sarah Bernhardt -and was a smash success. Zukor maneuvered his Famous Players Film Co. through...
...late 18th century Bostonians arrived at the theater around 6 p.m. and stayed through a full-length production of an English play and numerous divertissements: dancing, pantomimes, circustype acts. The 1790 Federal Street Theater held two to three thousand spectators and offered a new billing every three or four nights--all for a city of 20,000 inhabitants! This sense of spirited theater is what New England Dinosaur intends to rekindle Saturday and Sunday nights at First Congregational Church, Cambridge. The event begins at 6 p.m. with dance works by Toby Armour, founder of the Boston troupe, Jean Churchill...