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HomeMy WebLinkAboutClinton News-Record, 1953-09-17, Page 2PACE TWO GLI M NEWS-Rl coRU T,I URSD,t1,Y, .Sgrrmionit t.7, um TheTop ShdI.. The Belle t is making slow progress in Canada, but it is making; progress, More than 65,000 people saw the perform- I ances of the National Ballet Guild of C€nada during its coast- to-coast tour this year. Some of the places in which the ballet ap- peared had never seen live thea- tre since the turn of the century,' and doubtless many people who did see this year's national ballet are still pessimistic as to its future. I am certain that some of my friends have shown a new cold- ness toward me since they learn- ed that I see the ballet whenever thre is one in town, Like many Canadians who have not been exppsed to this type of art, they think it is disgusting for men to jump about in tights and for women to trip across the stage in flithsy costumes, like startled gazelles. But, no matter. In spite of what, Kaye. MacKinnon, a Canadian who founded the Nat- ional Peruvian Ballet, says about children not taking up ballet dancing until they are eight, there are schools for this type of dancing in every city in Can- ada, and the pupils are enrolled almost as soon as they can walk. It is a great pity that some people are self-conscious about coming out of a ballet theatre, almost as though they were coming out of a Blue Movie or a Saturday night burlesque. People are afraid of becoming too cult- ured, afraid of letting their hair grow long. We have misused the word "culture" for so long that it no longer has a meaning. Culture Is not only dancing and opera and surrealistic art, and the certain amount of Bohemian affectation that goes with it. It is the way people do their hair, the clothes they buy, the things they eat. It has to do not only With authors who are as far apart as William Wycherley, T. S. Eliot and Bertram Russell, but also about chicken • reels and fiddle AIR SECURITY R4ATIONAL SECURITY VISIT YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE STATION Visit us when in town for the best values in Diamonds, Watches, Jewellery. • COUNTER players, jugglers and tight -rope walkers, about chewing gum and automobiles. As for ballet, it is not quite correct to assume that it is an art which the farmer and plum- ber will never appreciate. It was among the serf, the peasan- try, that the greatest of all ballet —the Russian ballet — got its start. Besides • that, if a country- man, for instance, can 'take great joy from` seeing a deer leap a woodland fence, he should find some pleasure in watching an agile danseuse interpret a mus- ical story in terms of,,,graceful leaps and pirouettes. Ballet may be effeminate if effeminacy is grace and beauty. But there is nothing sissified /a- bout it. I have been backstage with Winnipeg's; Paddy Stone and seen the tortuous pace of his rehearsals, In London I have marvelled with others at the en- durance of the great British dancer Anton Dolin. No tap- tdancer or ballroom dancer has to be quite so precise. Anyone who saw the ballet movies "Red Shoes" and "Limelight" can un- derstand what long and strenuous preparation must go into each single performances. There is probably no work in the theat- rical arts which is as hard as the dancing these people do in their long underwear. �No one who knew Rene Blum would say he was effeminate. He , was a ballet dancer. Because he was a brother of the French Socialist Prime Minister, and because he was a Jew, the Ger- mans were particularly cruel tb him during the occupation of France. He died in an intern- ment camp. I No one would have considered Vaslav Nijinsky (1890-1950) ef- feminate. He was the greatest of all the ballet dancers, and his name is still to ballet as Kubelik's was to the violin earlier in the century. Incidentally, Anton Do - lin, who was in Canada to dance this summer, was a pupil of Nij- insky's sister, the choreographer Bronislava. Ballet began in France. Even though the first ballets were stately (Louis XIV was a dancer) and pompous, and the elaborate costumes forbade agility, they have always been akin to poetry and music. After Camargo dared to shorten her skirt, ballet went through a reform which 'was more or less complete by the last half of the 18th century. Masks were no longer necessary, And ladies began to dance in gauze -like draperies with low bodices—with flesh -colored silk tights under- neath. In some it was necessary for these tights to be blue so that there would be a clear distinction between what was real flesh and what was not. Ballerina costumes have changed , very little since then. The best of the earlier female dancers were Italians, while the male dancer was subordinated everywhere until this century when the choreography required more than the strength of a girl dressed as a man to lift the bal- lerinas through their tableau. Creative leadership of the ballet passed eventually to Russia where Peter the Great encouraged the cultivation of Western manners. IRMA W/ISIT YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE STATION :i It. RCAF AIR FORCE DAY SAT. SEPTEMBER 19 AIR SECURITY NATIONAL SECURITY LLASFIMAR Drive -In Theatre CLINTON ONTARIO SATuREY SEPT.19 VISIT YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE STATION IAMk CLINTON BODY & RADIATOR SHOP CR rl A. Cox, Proprietor Phone • O ONTARIO CLINTON %,women Playing Their r Part In Air Force Aircraft maintenance in the RCAF is now performed by women as well as men. Here Air- woman C. M. Nagloren, of East Coulee, Alta., a communications performance checker with 416 Squadron at Uplands, checks radio equipment in a T-33 jet trainer. —National Defence Photo The folklore of the serf influenc- ed the Russian Ballet and it was because the roots of the dance were so firmly embedded among the masses that the Russian form continued to develop. The Russian ballet wenn, to Paris with Anna Pavlova and Zniinsky in 1909, and in 1911 Igor Stravinsky wrote "Petrou- chka". The best ballet music, however, was written by Tchai- kovsky, although Brahms, Bee- thoven, Berlioz, Chopin and Mo- zart were important contributors, and, of course, Ralph Vaughan Williams. The Ballets Russes were in ex- ile during the First Great War and under Serge Diahilev (1872- 1929), the great impresario, bal- let at last came to England. The Sadler's Wells Ballet, first under Alicia Markova and Dolin (who had been trained by, Diaghilev), encouraged the dance in its Lon- -don school, but very little — in spite of Adeline Genee at the Empire Theatre until 1907—came of ballet in England until 1930. That is the story of the ballet. not as profouhd as the story of the opera or of the drama; but nevertheless a strong thread run- ning through the development of the various forms of dancing. 'Immediate service IN YOUR LOCALITY FOR Estate Planning and Wills Investment Management and Advisory Service 4% Guaranteed Investments 2% on savings — deposits may be mailed Real Estate Services For prompt attention call RAYE 13. 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This also provides a stand- by system in case of a power fail- ure. The pumphouse is staffed 24 hours a day due to its importance as the heart of the station. A cause of many questioning re- marks is the new sewage disposal plant located in its prominent posi- tion west of the station along Highway No. 4. . This plant has the newest type of disposal system using the activated sludge process. The process is one in which sewage is brought into contact with air and with biologically active sludge. The sludge is separated by sedi- mentation, leaving a clear effluent. On May 6, 1948, at Clinton, the first post-war wings parade was held for 13 officer graduates who received the new double -wing badges for radio officers and radio navigators. „gyp a'akY, ri.rv.. zrawa All RCAF Station$ Commemorating Battle of Britain Personnel of the RCAF in Can- ada's capital city will commem- orate the Battle of Britain by a special church parade on Sunday, September 20. Taking part in the parade will be more than 1,400 officers, airmen and airwomen from various local RCAF units, including Rockcliffe, Uplands and Air Force Headquar- ters. Special church services will be conducted in respective church- es for Roman Catholics and Prot- estants. Battle of Britain Sunday is an annual event in Canada and is in memory of that heroic handful of Royal Air Force fighter pilots— many of whom were from Canada and the Commonwealth—who in Britain's darkest 'hour fought a- gainst great odds in 1940 and 1941 and turned back the Nazi assault on the United Kingdom to win the first great battle of World War II, The medals of subsequent cam- paigns in a long drawn-out war will flash on Battle of Britain Sunday as the flights of air force men and women march past the reviewing stand with the Queen's and the RCAF's colours. The of- ficial salute will be taken by Air Marshal C. Roy Slemon, chief of the air staff. Leading the two -wing parade will be the Central Band of the RCAF, Ottawa -Hull Air Cadet Band, and the Canadian Legion Band. Other RCAF centres across Canada will also mark the historic occasion by church parades, fly pasts and reviews. In Ottawa the ceremonies will be under the di- rection, of W/C .1. H. Giguere, of Ottawa,. chairman of the Battle of Britain Sunday committee. YOU CAN DEPEND ON Wktatt kidneysfad,to roomy* cXQeaa ..QV and wastes, bank. ache, tirod feeling, disturbed rest often Sollow.,Dotdd's Kidney rills gime• late kidneys to normal p better, work better. Oet ISodd'a at any drug store. You can depend ou Dodds. AIR SECURITY NATIONAL SECURITY RCAF° AIR FORCE DAY SAT. SEPT. 19 VISIT YOUR NEAREST AIR FORCE STATION Clinton locker service, PHONE 335 CLINTON at,,,k 4 / kW Partq guests prefer Coke Your guests—young or not— are sure to enjoy ice-cold Coke. Its matchless flavor sparks the party... keeps the fun going. 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