THE CHINA MAIL, THURSDAY, “AUGUST
19, 1954.
A GENIUS OF
more
THE BALLET
GERARD
BOURKE
RECALLS THE WORK AND INFLUENCE OF SERGE DIAGHILEFF, WHO DIED ON AUGUST 19 TWENTY - FIVE YEARS AGO
WAX
a
end.
com-
Dinghileff to re- favourite. He nover allowed It WENTY-five years ago modelled by
to be presented without most today, prediction place the great Nijinsky.
"Massine is the most brilliant careful preparation, Booking fullled when
mind I have ever met with in a perfection in
dancing of the Serge Diaghileff, genius of dancer. Why, he knows things Fokine's choreography and the explains them to playing of Chopin's music 20th century ballet, died at before one his beloved Venice "on the im", Diaghlieff once comment orchestrated by Stravinsky.
Although he respected class- sen." Diaghileff had always
left the Nijinsky had
also dreaded sea voyages, all the pany in 1913, shortly after the clam in dancing and
furthered the art he still held premiere of the gloomy notorious Parls after
on views
accepted "The Rite of strange
musical classics for onc who warning. Now a cortege of Stravinsky'n
that Spring
Cousc hostile gondolas bore his body to P
the theatre. Nijin-riginally approached ballet A rioting in
musician. Once he remarked: the small cemetery on the sky a duncing had been brilliant.
"Bratims
but Is nothing at choreography putrefying corpse. Beethoven is Island of Sun Michele, The liut is efforta
for Schumann, mummy: as ccremony closed a glittering had been largely fruitless
see no
in him but nothing quarter of a century into his lack of musical knowledge
and Inability to transfer his homesick dog howling for tur which Dingh left had toured ideas to the dancers.
moon!" Yel in 1910, he had Western
presented "Carnaval" with the capitals of Europe presenting some of
the age's greatest dancers,
designers
from
Stravinsky
jo
disliked ballets.
clue
and
musician,
his native
Diaghile
Found they might prove faunelal ly. and, pecially
in Paris, W works, krmind
A
decor by Bakst and music-by Schumann.
In
America,
George Balap
In creates ballets frequent chine now however classical style which he studied
Dlughlieff,
and other under
have Am:lean choreographers extended the athletic approach Jeas plways presented
to ballet in works of a purely ***Consequently, he drew
quality. But din.. lum Duhy of the mosi dis- gymnastic linguished
congners | choreographers and Chorous Wirth bei
may be, ballet now lacks supreme co-ordinating mind.
1
many Russia.
Today Dioghileff's Is scarcely on bullet found than during his fe ideals are cherished by with whom he worke, not dancer, composer, grapher, capacity of an artist who foster ed and developed the raw mate- rial of ballet.
but
The
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for
day
Composers
DI his who Ixor Stravinsky. collaborated conscientiously for over twenty years, now acknow- idges that his initial success W Knineil solely through distinguisher Swvlas
his
He Was 21 impresario whom artistic and not Anancial rewards were rught. Alibaugh ections with the balet. The
large for
dent
1
he had inherited a tune on coming of age, he was
heavily frequently Luckily his idealistic usually drew wealthy spoor
Massine
pre
dreams
conductor,
Ernest Ansermet, was niso $1
was one
of
LLS
Dolin
wrotn
"Perfect ballet," member of the group, e pecially Diagalleff, "can only be created during the First World War, and Igo Morkevitch Dinghileft's last discoveries. The great French poet, Jean Cocteau, ton, cullaborated with him in the Parly seasons.
hia
by the very closest fusion of dancing. the three elements of
When I mount a bullet, painting and music.
I always keep these three elements in my
mind."
he became
wheat
Tchaikovsky
ro-
at
the
Dinghileff always had sympathetic affection for Tchal-
OPERATIONS SÉMÉDILE
1 Removal of the
Indochine...
2 Setting the slipped Tuunis..........
·3 Opening up the EDC
4 Good clean out of
The internal economy
FRENCH
ASSEMBLY
MON DIEU! AGAIN HE COMES !
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There's big business for the psychiatrists The gardener from Glasgow runs two cars Shoppers wear sun-suits and curling-pins
THE BOSS OF THE SPACE-MEN COMES DOWN. TO. EARTH WHEN YOU TALK OF ROCKET-TRAVEL
He Can't Go To The Moon
Without His Wife
By
WILLIAM HAMSHER
Innsbruck. There are nearly 150 of them, THE rocket experts, the representing a membership
of
and
over 18 different out-space men, the 8,500 spreadi
countries, They have taken interplanetary travel-
over Innsbruck University lers, are assembled in con- in rows of lecture-rooms ⚫ are checking up on how long it will ference here in Innsbruck.
And evrything is rocket tako before they can take oft.
the federation ing with them in this gay, expected delightful capital of the president to be a white-hatred Tyrol: the hotel prices, the gentleman, full of equations and thermometer (after months Instead out came dapper, of cold and rain it is 83 in bow-tied Frederick C. Durant, the shade), and when I engineering consultant of Wash- called on the top rocket pro- fessor, president of the Astronautical Federation, they said: "He'll be down in
logarithms,
Ington.
Mr Durant, In his mid-thirties, was able to tell me what it all rdds up to when these lecture chaps have finished their
a few minutes," as if he were culations
col-
and taken away the
In Ten Years
away on the first experi- number they first thought of. mental rocket flight over the snowy Alps.
These space-men are all dead serious about
the
prospects.
HOLLYWOOD
REVISITED
But I Have Not Seen
Much Bad Taste
Hollywood; Tuesday.
Y
OU need to live here
me: "I
al
came from
It is all of that
DON IDDON'S DIARY
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ting off the subject of bad taste -possibly.
had to look around for a cook. boards.
Beverly Fills won't even hair still in curling-pins,
tunnte.
Douglas Fairbanks
Work and peace
"You
They like us
native
In
"Within the next ten years," "artificial Durant, said Mr ratellites will be sent into space."
will He means that man launch and keep sending round starlets artificial the earth
to us which will mdio back news of what it is like out there. "And within 25 years 1 be- lieve that man will be travelling in these artificial satellites," said Mr Durant. "Space medical problems are being tackled. The logical development will be the flight of a quarter of a million the
and moon miles round back. Finally there will be landing on the moon."
#
When will that be? "Certain- ly this century."
her husband
to share
his
MIN Durant, who came with from Washington the triumph of
the space-men'a president, joined us,
"Mrs
Durant,"
Raid, "would you be happy sceing
ejection
ធន
រ
Learning Fast
room came
Society.
and
of
But for oficia! intrigue,
There are, of course, the ham-your husband take off for the It was Dinghileff who first Diaghfleff night well have
vigorous male mained in Russia-at least until
burger
heavens and beefburger moon?"
Said Mrs Durant: "Fred will Diaghleffs most important introduced the
for a few weeks to the revolution-as head of one
joints, the nutburger stands, the acasons of Russian holiet took Husslun donging to the West, us
him. And drive-ins, the giant jumbo hot certainly not be going unless I I would theatres, In-
realise that Holly- he had in the highly successful ballet, of he impaniol Puris, where place in
uf "Sheherazade." with muste by
to be been stead, after clearly stating his
In the second wood has
deg joints, but they are nearer go with prefer it earlier staged exhibitions
ideas in his in- progressive
Los Angeles. Re- for
Laste.
racket." cioso years.
my together for Russian art and opera, including Rasky-Korsakov, and decor by
mont Importuni
In Hollywood itself, which has designers, fluencial journal, "The World of libelled Challapine's first performances his
of that. The There is every form of archi- all Art,"
place a voluntary member all the slura about gigantle, stupendous, etc." This
to think outside Russia. There Diughileff's Bikst and Benals,
Mrs Durant used drawing material He did not, however, neglect exile,
from bad taste, bintancy, chrome gardenor, by the way, has two tecture Spanish, Georgian, Old a sweet-sounding name and em- today uphed by ideals
I've They cars a big Buick and a big English, whatever that is, and braces Bel Air, Beverly Hills, and
scattered studios, the blend is the Massine, maitre-de-ballet at the clansietan, and firmly maintain Russia to exhibit with pride in and neon excesses?
that this interplanetary business little
Jars, for which Most of the help ranch-type-but the that The romantle ballet, the West. This year his im-
them Oldsmobile, not true. Put are
no harsh found There is ride to
Fashions are casual, was 'w lot of crackpots, va irritates. Opera, who joined the Russian ed
fast: in Southern California
Now she's learning Sylphides." was
measurable contribution to bal-
here, no commercialisation
in sun-suits company when only 17 and was "Leg
let will be remembered in a down to jealousy and envy.
work in their own cars.
"And what I would like to do meon near the houses, no bill- I have seen women
with their shopping
atmo- about #pecial Dinghileff exhibition
Southern California is one
casually When we first arrived here we
learn more the
could write a Edinburgh International of the world's garden spots.
spherics so that I houser Outside the smaller Fesilval.
about water their lawng in space cookery book-all 117
and Hollywood is the best of The women arrived in their own England, we enn still sec
and most of them drove slow film studios, radio or tele-
to stop pots
pans gurdens. The many of his creations with the the
only cars and
because they vision stations, country clubs or women
dressing-gowns. Girls sometimes tow
Bying up at you from the stove Sadler's Wells Bollet, and the feature which strikes me as weren't interested in temporary wolf courses within its area.
During the first week I was drive their open cars dressed because gravity is different....
and recently formed Festival Ballet being slightly overdone is work.
and I'm completely space-minded as directed by Anton Dolin,
go around youths here I was driving along Sunset swimming costumes,
and men One cook, a coloured woman, Boulevard, and dotted along the mapp Irishran
in their you, sce." Diaghileff the blueness of the Pacific
"It's ΠΟΣ the money,
With Mrs Durant aboard, the convertibles. I don't like to see launched on a brilliant career at and the sky, the white glare said:
earth to tho - moon one of his Monte Carlo seasons. of the sunshine, the green honey, but I just don't like the road I saw signs: "Maps to 300 stripped to the waist
of switching movie stars' homes."
I bought one for a doller. It für wraps over swimming cos-conó
сап stand them rocket would obviously be fitted of the manicured lawns, and inconvenience
jobs." There is a maid next listed
lot of dead people's tumes, but
out with a nico fridge, inter- the chrome yellow of the door who offered to buy her
Barrymore, houses-cha
coat hangers, Will now and rain.
Planetary mountains and the canyons. boss's Cadillac from him when Ro
Fred's pants would be pressed. Rogers,
Out from Another lecture etc.-and quite a few senior, I would be delighted to spend he told her he was moving back
has-beens'
Signora Herminia houses. I suspect at least aix months of every East. The Scottish
The servants thrive in Holly- the stor your
gar- here.
maps are A addres
MOST of the people here are Balado de Tabanera, secretary dener
works the wood and so do those who serve racket, but tourists go on buy- Mot who
Californians, of the Argentine Interplanetary kovsky's music, 60 suited to Anthony
them cheerfully. ballet, and was, in fact, a dissold to
Bartleys
Everybody's idea of a secre house the stars and the other picture In was a vacant lot where Hollywood people tre from all
people. There are three hundred There tant relative of the composer. Glasgow over 50 years ago and psychiatrists in Beverly Hills Charles Laughton was supposed the 48 States and from Europe
We may imagine the pleasure
This is the Mecca, yet tary, dark eyes finshing above I haven't been back since, al-
a deep crimson, low-cut balloon- and Hollywood alone. Wherever to live, and the may had got too.
zeen many he would have derived from the
Abou! Deborah Kerr's eddress all strangely I haven't
11.0 current full-length productions but I've
though I plan
licence plates on ing dress, a trip one day. I go I find people talking
Then their analysts. Doctors have fot
was living in out-of-State wrong, unless 1
First Girl of Tchaikovsky's
been around. "Swan Lake"
pickings
particularly in Lomeone else's house. But who car
I was driving along Route 101 Signora Tabanera, whose and "The
This is one of ever owns the houses are for when a car pulled up alongside husband Sleeping Beauty when anyone asks me whore
Beverly Hills. live I say: 'God's country, where
Is vice-president in London alven
by the Sadler's
the ocean and the mountains the lush residential areas,
A blonde peered out and said: the federation, is a car.didate Wells Company, since he always
There are about thirty theu- meet","
from near admired English
Sheepshead for the honour of being the dancing and
people living in Beverly-
Bay?" I said "No." She said: British only
and about thirty thousand palm
"From Buffalo? You gotta New Arst girl on the moon. Her con-
versation about It
It was in these to a Russian com-
trees.
is little bad taste in York State licence plate."
charming terms: For every 30 houses there are THERE
I said: "Actually I'm from
to go wish
enormously, Beverly Beverly Hills. It is д Won-
The blonde withdrew but it is too much problem to "These English are fine dancers. LOOKED at him, suspecting, 20 swimming pools. being
She was obviously make this travel vot. First, the rightly,
Angeles, derfully peaceful town, early ek her head. that he'd got the Hills resents
of Los Angeles, bed and up at dawn for work phrase from
satellite, you know, will ascend 1 Chamber of swank suburb
It is grand and exclusive.
at the studios. If you want fun disappointed.
the On Commerce pamphlet.
however, round the earth in the follow- you have only a few minutes' The rivals drive to Sunset Strip and Ciro's Southern Cotton is quite ng 10 years."
toward tho
watched, fascinated, 38 and Mocambe, which are night friendly place
Belph. There are 80,000 British Signora Tabanera spiralled A clubs, as you may have heard.
delicato white gloved hand Valbis. who drew Inspiration Hollywood's advertising † OVELLA PARSONS, the The big name at the moment people living in this area, and Locletics-the Lancashire from his ideals and achieve- men сал be
before my eyes, demonstrating forgiven for columnist who calls horself at Ciro's is Sophie Tucker, the two
the Yorkshire-are
how the satellite will nacend ments.
talking about "super, colossal, the gay illiterate, lives there. original Red Hot Momms. An and Lancashire hot-pot round the earth,
Loucila after all these years is hour-and-a-hat's flight away at popular as
pudding, powerful woman Las Vegas, the gembling resort, and Yorkshire fish parly the way to the moon," said
"But that not to go all the still the most
I went to In Hollywood.
the big name is Moe West. The
and other Saturday
was un-30-year-old for the Hearst aid names carry mare lure and mediately whisked back home. people who go must be young. signora, Tho Sho writes
of the box-office appeal than the new. newspapers, and
Willam stars and many of the producers
Holden may be and Edmund Gwenn, pink-checked chail wou o
said: "I've heard are frightened of her. She has is asking $300,000 per picture, and gentle, built together an effective news but no one yet claims that he about you for a long time and cry happy if I see somebody network,
and
she gets the news. has the pull of Valentino, And now I've met you."
There were a group of Briliai She knows who la getting a there is no one remotely ap
trusiness men there and British divorce, who is having a baby, proaching Greta Garbo.
the Consul, Garbo arrived here the other officials including whose option is being lited.
At the moment she is en hall- clay, and although she is 49 and Sidney Faithful, who was con- met me in day in Europe, but she will be hasn't made a picture since I vinced he had back, and Hollywood will be on was in my twenties she hit the Koren, and the Consul-General, Hollywood. Miss Booth won her "Oscar" its best behaviour. Her rival is front pages. The present Garbo Michael Gillett,
taikative. THE fdal of today's flmgoer is for the part of Lola,
frowy Hodda Hopper, another middle is pleasant and more
taste for She docan't brush off the Press. someone more like mother housewife mattled Lo an aged woman with z
Carbo is an intense admirer in *Come Rays alcoholic,
Back, elaborate hats and the scalpel Litlio Sheba," Part she wisecrack. Miss Hopper was an of Cecil Beaton, and I hope my created on Broadway.
actress of talent, and I find her friend Cecil will arrange an in- E next day I went to Forest Crawford is *Lawn Cemetery. Evelyn "The There is only one probably the most durable act- Waugh wronged it in solemnly:
In he world Tess around, but she is no Garbo Loved One" Forest Lawn is stage in droves,"
great Alle sald.
country left
and wouldn't claim to be.
dignified, Impressive. 1 quiet, "They always
commented, the United States,"
prefer the plaque to gravestones "That was my own life being
The third ranking columnist
and
I like the music. Tho Graham
once "Women want to see their played right there in front of a Shella
Mis Graham is
leaflet which was given own type on the screen because me,"
Cochran girl,
strained the truth slightly. it shows that things in their
but also quite a good-looking.
"The great maus- own lives are important," she In her now, pleture, "About", Jingờ, She reported solemnly
Joum, the only place in the Michelangelo's ald. There is romance in be Mrs Lealle," she plays the role the other day: Alan Ladd is ing a housewife...life is not of a lonely woman living with thanking God he's back here. Monroe. Some of these Holly world where all of
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had admitted dancers pony.
How apt
his remark:
$4
One
will day they
form school of their own.'
Ho had, The prophecy came true only two years after his death. The but the phrase happens to be Sadler's Wells Company was true. The ocean and the moun- founded by Dame Ninelte de tains do moet hore.
SEX
FILM
IS LOSING
APPEAL
THE
By GAY PAULEY
than Marilyn
Moruve, octress Shirley Booth.
And, she adds, the women are responsible for this changing faste.
over for a woman Just because she was good enough to marry and make a home, s
"Women used to come back. #adable except when she writes. traduction. Jomm
memories of an old love.
Feuding-folk
whole,
Strained
It said: AT the moment Mits Crawford As Louding with Marilyn
mte
wood feuds are Alan kissed the ground."
the brain greatest sculpture may by sean.” agents, but it also said a lot more, but did Some of the people who live children of Press
Beverly Hills sro Fred the Crawford-Monroe quarrel is not make it clear that what the Miss Booth, who in 20 years in
tourists and the mourners were Humphrey Bogart, a genuine one of acting has won nearly every Astaire,
Joon
Who once was a hoofer Bining were reproductions.co Looke and Groucho Marx, Herbert MRT- "That is why," the Academy theatrical award,
nęło "now has a blegant. Also, I was not too enthusias le Award winner said, "the charace talks the witely roles she has all. Jack Benny, Gracie Allen, but
critical of about the burial announcement: George Brent, Engilah Charles, Bogor C
Recent, fer netrees these days is getting been playing."
In addition to low prion,
one Robert Cummings, Marion Margh's wiggle and revealing
malcem posible one the juley roles. Oh, there'll al WAYS be room for sex appeal. Of medium height, and on the Davies, and Cary Grants and clothes LAN
alome bow the hotleb say-payman But women want to donlity plump lae, also: myan with a 32The address: Elas
of Hollywooda themselves with the heroine chuckie: "I'm just not the type Who's Who
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