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...England. In 1939, after her mother's divorce and Britain's declaration of war on Germany, she went to stay at Arnhem, where the Van Heemstra family had their home. There, one day in 1940, she was taken to see a performance of Britain's Sadler's Wells ballet company. She went home entranced and determined to be a ballet dancer herself...
...pretty Ballerina Inge Sand, who danced Delibes' Coppélia on the second night; Erik Bruhn, who bounded through the Nutcracker; and Frank Schaufuss and Mona Vangsaa, who gave a touching performance of ill-fated young love in Romeo and Juliet. Londoners, used to the heady perfection of Sadler's Wells, loved the more natural Danes, brought them back again & again to bow to the applause-a thrill they seldom get at home in Denmark, where tradition strictly limits curtain calls...
...designed to keep them in their place. The founders also hope to preserve what they call "the British way." To define it, they staged the Cecil Rhodes Centennial Exhibition at Bulawayo. For weeks they have been importing such staples as Princess Margaret and the Queen Mother (by jet), the Sadler's Wells Ballet, the Hallé Orchestra and the Covent Garden Opera (187 members, 1,500 costumes...
...Spain last week, all musical roads led to Granada. There, to the historic shadows of the old Moorish Alhambra, came a crowd of festival fans and such internationally famed performers as Guitarist Andrés Segovia, Harpist Nicanor Zabaleta, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn and the Sadler's Wells Ballet. For Granada, it was the windup of a fortnight of music and dance, the second in two years, which the city fondly hopes will become an annual affair eventually rivaling Bayreuth, Salzburg and Edinburgh...
...content of the films is not worth the resulting headache. Besides the effective cartoons, there is an explanation of the "Tri-Optic technique and a tedious British travelogue. After a long and enjoyable intermission, the showing resumes with the flickering Sadler Wells ballet. Often in these latter pictures, a dimension is misplaced and the scenes appear flat and ordinary. More research and better material are necessary to change Tri-Optic films from an experiment to entertainment...