Evening star., 1949-10-11

IlfSI personal appearance III C4lS
but no appearance could be NOR
is concerned.
The dancer is MORA Shearer,
motion picture. THE Red Shoes, -
of the Sadler's Wells company.
with which she is dancing for four
weeks at the Metropolitan opera
house.
In Sadlers Wells programs,
Miss Shearer alternates with Mar
got Fonteyn, the latter the COM
pany's first dancer on the distaff
side.
There is nothing malevolent in
this treatment of Miss Shearer by
her present employers, no matter
how sharp it's contrast with the
unrestrained promotional treat
ment she received as heroine Of
1.-THE Red Shoes" 1t is simply
that the philosophy of Sadler's
Wells, classical dance group. is
to accent ensemble performance,
not the individual performer.
No one enjoys its practice more
than Miss Shearer. an attitude
she made clear when beseiged by
offers Of cinema producers after
her Red Shoes" debut.
mo more movies" she said
then, to the astonishment of
everyone In the entertainment
world.
1t was her ambition, she made
1t clear. to be q dancer, not a
film actress.
She is being treated as a dancer
during the Sadler's Wells first
American visit, a beautiful and
gifted dancer whose international
renoWn as movie star has not
impressed herself, or her associ-
ates. as such things usually do.
Another leading artist in Sad
ler's Wells is Robert Helpman who
danced with Miss Shearer in "The
Red Shoes" and who also did the
choreography for the dramatic.
ballet in that screen triumph
which still is running, after a
year, on Broadway.
X X X
Washington, by the way, has
contributed a dancer to the cur
rent Sadler's Wells company. She
is Jacqueline Williams, 10, who
became Lisa Gardiner pupil 10
years ago and was graduated
from the Washington School of
Ballet. Miss Williams has been
seen by number of Washington
dance enthusiasts, perhaps by her
largest audience when she danced
in the Capitol Theater's Going
Native" revues.
The mellowest thing that hap
pens to drama departments in
Washington is the annual visit to
them of L. Stoddard Taylor, re-
tired and now living in Florida,
but for 80 years manager of the
old BelaSco Theater here.
Mr.. Taylor. a little more frail
but hardy enough to have spent
the summer in travel, Is planning
his next summers trip away from
his Winter Haven home. He
would like to take a freighter trip
to Europe, but, failing that, he
thinks he may circle from Key
West to Cuba, back to Mexico. up
through California and across the
country back to Florida.
The former Belasco manager
lives daily with a happy reminder
OF his days in Washington. It
centers in the name of his home {
Villa Heartsease, which he got
from the title of a play which
Henry Miller brought to Wash
1ngton many years ago.
AT that time, he resolved if he
ever had home, "Heartsease"
would be its name.
He has the home now and no
name could be more perfect.
Y X X
William Daniels, the camera
man, is convinced that Holly
wood has second Garbo in Marta
loren. 1t is an estimate of Miss
Toren's talent, and strikingly in
dividual beauty, that carries the
more weight in view of the fact
that Daniels is Garbo's old cam
eraman. He was with her in 26
pictures.
Daniels. who first encountered
Miss loren in illegal Entry"
also surmises that she will be
less OF a recluse type than Swe-
den's first great gift to Holly
wood.
Bulletin board: Six Canadian
films will be shown next Monday
night. October II. to a specially
invited audience at the Depart
AMUSEMENTS.