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...major part of their mission was far from forlorn. This week, socialites, diplomats and balletomanes were flocking to the Metropolitan Opera House to see them. Even at $9.60 top, not a seat was empty for the U.S. debut of the finest classical troupe west of Moscow: the Sadler's Wells Ballet from London's Royal Opera House, Covent Garden...
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...
...ticketseller at London's Sadler's Wells Theater, the words themselves made music: "Sorry, sir, no seats-we're a success." For a fortnight, Londoners had been flocking to hear the new opera of lanky Benjamin Britten (TIME, Feb. 16)-his fourth in four years...
London's famed Sadler's Wells company was putting on a new ballet. The orchestra struck up Haydn's cheerful "Clock" Symphony. Onstage, the audience saw a twelve-foot grandfather clock with human hands and a swinging pendulum of dancers' legs. But to go with Haydn's rippling music, Choreographer Leonide Massine had scraped up a trivial love story between an insect princess and a human clockmaker, and set it dancing with steps that were largely borrowings from a dozen Massine ballets. About all that made the evening enjoyable, particularly...
Moira Shearer's pert, clean-limbed dancing is by no means up to the superb technical and dramatic skill of Sadler's Wells' prima ballerina, Margot Fonteyn. But Moira does have what one starry-eyed London critic called "deerlike littleness and midsummer coloring...