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The Seaforth News, 1961-03-23, Page 6Canadian Dormer Headed For Top ,Although Dame Margot Fon- ' :syn has recently disallowed all s'eporta of her imminent retire mont, speculation continues to percolate as to who will replace her as the Royal Ballet's leading ballerina. bast month, the Fon- teyn Sweepstakes gained another Wont contender when Lynn Seymour, a 22 -Year-old Cana- dian dancer, put herself among each front-runners as Svetlana. Beriosova, Nadia Nerina, Anya Linden, and Annette Page, While Miss Seymour has not yet offi- cially been elevated to ballerina status, her performance of the female lead in Frederick Ash - ton's new two -act ballet, "Les Deux Pigeons," completely cap- tivated both audience and critics. at the Royal Opera louse, Cov- ent Garden, As Gourouli, the Parisian mod- el who loses her lover to a gypsy temptress but wins him back again, Miss Seymour ex- tended her range of expression to add a streak of flirty mischief to the tender beauty already associated with her style, As Oleg Kerensky of The Daily Mail put it, she -"revealed a humor- ous side to her talent as well as the poignant emotion and capti- vating lyricism which we already know so well." Miss Seymour has been press- ing her competition for nearly two years, and last December, in Kenneth MacMillan's "The invi- tation," she drew critical notices which any ballerina might envy. "She is the lucky possessor of a tender, expressive liquid move- ment astonishingly similar to that of Fonteyn," wrote Alex- ander Bland in The Observer. "[Her] performance , .. puts her straight in the ballerina class." Ashton, who is both associate director and principal chore- ographer of the Royal Ballet, notes with enthusiasm that "she has enormous musicality. She has a brain, too. What she needs now, after her work in new bal- lets, is a masterly of the old classics—`Swam Lake, `Giselle,' and the like." The daughter of a Vancouver, B.C., dentist, Miss Seymour (real name Springbett) was audition- ed by Ashton and Dame Ninette de Valois, the Royal Ballet's un- compromising director, in 1953, when the company was touring _ the U.S. and Canada. On schol- rship, she attended the organl- ation's famous school in Lon - on until 1957, when she joined company as a professional anter. Wide-eyed and soft - ken, she admitted last month t she was "frightened to eath" at being a star. Q. 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PERRY'S WINDOW? — Delicate designs in the glass of a mysteriously shattered window provide an unusual frame for Mrs. Sylvia Perry, a probate court clerk in Cleveland, Ohio. Mrs. Perry was working In her office when the window near herdesk cracked into thousands of fragments for no apparent reason. Any ideas? t 1441.1%.11rt; .0 �1 rs HRONICT • ideas? 1441. Let's start this column with a smile. Here's why. My young friend Marian, like a good many other girls, loves to talk on the telephone. Her husband, how- ever, doesn't take too kindly to this habit of hens so Marian tries to keep her telephone conversa- tions confined to such times that. Fred is out. But it can't always be arranged that way. One Sat- urday Fred, after shovelling snow for about an hour came into the house for a rest period, only to find Marian engaged in an animated telephone conversa- tion from which she seemed un- able to break away. Finally she did, only to hear her spouse say in disgust — "So help me, when you die I'll see to it that you have a telephone installed in your casket. You'd never rest easy without it!" Here is another one. Our niece Betty and her husband left Sudbury last week for a few days in Toronto where George was attending a business con- vention. At that time we were enjoying warm, balmy days in this part of Ontario, just the op- posite from the North country. Betty didn't stop to compare weather conditions so she ar- rived in Toronto wearing a fur coat, a wool dress and fur -lined boots. Her only change in foot- wear was a pair of loafers and as she only intended putting in time at Dee's place she didn't even bring another dress They were here last night and poor Betty was sweltering. But that wasn't the only problem. It is two years since George drove around Toronto. Since then there have been many changes streets shut off, others design- ated as one-way streets and va- rious confusing signs along the highway showing motorists which road to take into Toronto — that is, via the Lakeshore, the Gardiner Express Way or inside lanes for Parkside Drive—which is where they wanted to go. I can't remember all the wrong turns they made but George got himself so hopelessly snarled up he found himself anywhere but where he wanted to go and drove about twenty miles out of his way, even as far as the Kingsway. And George, I might add, is an experienced driver. How lucky can you get? Sat- urday night we were not paying too much attention to 'the wea- ther — too busy watching TV hockey — Leafs versus Detroit wasn't that a game? Then it started to storm — rain and gale -force winds. It hit the back of our house with a terrific blast: awnings rattled and a singing sound came through the weather-stripping. Partner made frequent trips to the basement to see if water was seeping in. Up to bedtime it was all right but we kept our fingers crossed as the lights were dipping — and if the hydro went off that meant baling out water by hand from the sump pit. However, we went to bed after putting flashlights handy and candles on the kitch- en table. We prayed for the best but we were not too hopeful — not after listening to radio re- ports of flooding conditions at villages along the Credit River only about fifteen miles from here, • Sunday morning — what a change . . . bright sunshine, ground comparatively dry and no wind. The only thing to make us realize we had had a near miss was the ice on the trees. But were they ever pretty! Speaking of trees, all this win- ter rabbits have shown great re- spect for our trees and shrubs but now, with spring only weeks. away they have started nibbling at a golden pussy -willow -that I have • been babying along for three years. Partner immediate- ly took steps to protect it. The rabbits, thwarted from nibbling then favourite shrub, next at- tacked our honey locust. So Partner went to work on that. It is hard to know what to do for the best. Last year Partner wrapped every young tree and shrub with tar paper but in the spring we lost two lovely forsy- thia bushes. Partner thought it was because they were too pro- tected and did not get enough sun and air. Seems you just can't win. Well, this is Ross's fourth birthday — also Cedric's chris- tening day. They were here for Sunday dinner and there was plenty of excitement during the birthday -parcel -unwrapping op- erations — but nothing to what there would have been had Jerry been around. Last Friday night Art and the three boys were here while Dee was attending a Girl Guide ceremony. Next morning Dee phoned to ask if I SALLY'S SAWES. 'What about that raise you promised me sixmontheego?" had survived. "Yes," I answer- ed, "but I hope if you ever have another baby you, won't expect me, to look after Jerry!" Honest- ly, that boy requires one's un- divided attention. It isn't that he's bad but his curiosity is insa- tiable. He is independent and fearless and will climb anything to get, what he wants — and in a quiet way. When you think he is playing with his own toys he isjust as likely as not to be on top -of the cabinet pullingthings out of the top kitchen cupboards. His brother is quite different and will sit for hours puzzling out jigsaw pictures. Seems to me -a parent needs to be a train- ed psychologist these days to bring up a family properly. ONLY LAWYERS WON You've heard of road -hogs. Here is a case of a. road -sow. Driving along Sag Harbor Turn- pike, near Mineola, New York, Vincent Alioto Jr. claimed that a 300 -pound pregnant sow struck his automobile, causing $211 in damages and $100 for temporary loss of its use. Farmer Waclaw Denisiuk, owner of the sow, claimed the car hit the sow, and sued for $300. Judge H. T. Hogan said both cars and pigs have a right to roads. ISSUE 11 — 1961 Conducts Opera On Crutches The audience up in the hal- coulee spotted hIm first, slowly, making his way on crutches through the musicians down in the pit, Carefully, lie pulled him self . divan and that fupaamouson to silverythepohalo of .lair rose into the sight lines af' the audience ddwnstains, Then the Metropolitan Opera House ex- ploded into a standing oration for Leopold Stokowski, who' was, at 78, finally making his debut as a Met conductor. It went on like that for the next three and a half hours. Cheers, bravos, and uproarious applause greeted just about everything in the premiere last month of the Met's new produc- •'tion of Puccini's "Turandot," Act by act, Cecil Beaton's sets and costumes dazzled the eye, set- ting the scene for Puccini's tale - of legendary China in all its resplendent glory. As Turandot, the cruel princess of ice and fire, Birgit Nilsson poured forth such a flood of soaring, stabbing top notes that the ear rang in dis- belief, And this time, unlike previous performances of hers at the Met in Wagner's "Tristan and Isolde,"- she had a tenor who could stand up -to her tor- rent of sound, Franco Corelli, the company's handsome new 36 - year -old Italian• : singer, looked like a prince who might sweep a lady off her feet, and he sang like one, too, "Turandot" was Yur:oini's last opera. Hedied before he fin- ished it, and the work was com- pleted by Franco Alfano, an ob• scure composer now remember- ed only because he wrote the opera's last duet and finale. For the duet, Alfano worked 'from some very rough sketches left by the composer, and for the 'finale he reprised some of the opera's most beautiful melodies. When Arturo Toscanini con- ducted the world premiere of "Turandot" at La Scala in 1926, he stopped the orchestra when he came to that part of the score which Puccini had coin- ipleted. Turning to the audience, he said: "At this point the maes- tro laid down his pen." The next night "Turandot" was given with the Alfano ending. It was a wonder that the Met's new "Turandot" ,ever reached the stage at all. Just a month ago, the production's director, Yoshio Aoyama, the gifted Jan= anese responsible for the com- pany's currently successful "Ma- dame Butterfly," suffered a burst appendix. Thus, 34 -year-old Na- thaniel Merrill, who replaced him, suddenly found himself taking over the direction of a cast of 179. But that was only one disas- ter. Before Aoyama's illness, yet another replacement had had to he made when Dimitri . Mitrop- oulos died. Stokowski was chosen to succeed him, and then, of all things, he fell and broke his hip while playing ball with his two small sons during the Christ- mas holidays. To general man- ager Rudolph Bing's great re- lief, however, Stokowski refus- ed to give up and rehearsed first from a wheelchair and, at . the performance, propped a g,h lost the conductor's stool, hater, Axa took his bows on the stage sup- ported by his crutches, When asked after' the per-, 'formance how lie felt about the: tuinultous evening, Stokowsld, replied: "Really, great music, written from the heart. 1 felt it went to the hearts of those who were listening." Was he unduly tired after such en exacting or- deal? "No," he said softly,"eon- ducting never tires. You'. give much, but you receive more From NEWSWEEK Research indicates there are 16,000 active collectors of anti- que ears in the: United States. 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