Word: skintight
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Brothers do three violent routines, sing a song, Pussy Pussy, that has hit possibilities. Zorina and the Metropolitan Opera ballet appear in two elaborate dances, one a banal number, the other (high point of the picture) a superlatively beautiful water nymph dance in which Zorina, in skintight gold tunic, rises from the bottom of a fountain to astound a gentleman in dinner clothes. The Goldwyn girls, trade-mark of every Sam Goldwyn musical, appear only in the jazz v. classics ballet, are sorely missed thereafter...
...triumphed many times before. Her repertoire runs from Renaissance pavans and sarabands to formal, dignified Mozart, and striped, angular performances like the Study in Counter Rhythm for Dancers and Percussion Instruments which she put on at the Dell in 1934. In that year's Maguey she donned a skintight dress that fitted down under her heels, striped to look like a Mexican century-plant. Ben Stad called on her to dance the slow-moving steps of the Middle Ages at his Philadelphia Festival of the Society of the Ancient Instruments last spring...