"TONIGHT WE SING"
Sir,-Your critic "P.J.W.," who criticises Tonight We Sing in your issue of January 8, makes me wonder if he even saw the film. In the first place, Toumanova did not dance the Swan Lake ballet. If your critic had any knowledge at all of such ‘things he would have known that she danced what was
one of Pavlova’s most famous interpre-tations-"The Dying Swan," with music by Saint-Seens. If he had looked and listened he would have seen the ‘cellists on stage playing the music in the traditional Pavlova style. Further along he says that we see "Hurok’s first arrival in New York with Chaliapin," when in fact Hurok’s first arrival in New York was alone as Chaliapin’s agent, quite a long time before the singer attempted to go to the U.S.A. From a music lover’s point ef view I think Tonight We Sing was one of the best of its tvpe we have had from Hollv-
wood,
C.H.
F.
(Wanganui)
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 5
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163"TONIGHT WE SING" New Zealand Listener, Volume 30, Issue 758, 29 January 1954, Page 5
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