Decatur Daily Democrat, Volume 56, Number 121, Decatur, Adams County, 22 May 1958 — Page 11

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Says Choreography Profession Tougher TV Choreographers Study Many Angles By FRED DANZIG United Press Staff Correspondent NEW YORK (UP)—lt's no longer enough for a choreographer merely to know choreography.

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Now, with TV, they’ve got to writing and photography, says writing and photogaphy, slays Rod Alexander, one of the busiest toe-dippers around. ‘‘During TV rehearsals, I walk around with a lens finder so I can help plan the camera shots. This is important to a choreographer because many cameramen don’t know how to photograph dancing—lt’s a different world to them. “Besides knowing about cameras, angles and lenses, a choreographer should know something

aboiit music, to&Mmow th» twofour beat, thee-four and fourfour beats,” Alexander said. Dance Should Have Point When it comes to script writing, Alexander prefers it when the writer includes the dance as part of the story 1 line. “The dan c e should carry out a point in the story and advance the script. It should fit naturally and when it does, it's easy. But it's tough on us when the writers suddenly insert into' the script those two words, ‘dance here,' and nothing else.

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“Wf go it alone and afterwards the writers oeme over and complain that the dance is stopping the story ” With his wife, Bambi Linn, Alexander has appeared on some of the most lavish TV shows. They were on the pioneer “Show Os Shows” for about three years, later performed on a half-dozen spectaculars and still more variety shows. All of which means Alexander and Linn know how to handle themselves before the cameras. “When we’re dancing, we in-

stinctively feel if the camera is coniing in on us right. If it’s too 'far away, we’ll moVe closer to it? We don’t want too much floor showing.” said Rod. • ~ Choreographer For Godfrey Now the choreographer on the jazzed-up Arthur Godfrey “Talent Scouts” show on CBS-TV, Alexander helps keep the new and older talent moving more gracefully'. In the summer, he and Bambi will take a 16-member troupe to tthe Brussels Fair to present their ambitious dance revue, “American Dance Jubilee.” Then, in Oc-

; tober, they start a four-month > tour of the United States with the " “J’ubilee” troupe. Alexander learned about motion picture choreography when he handled the footwork in "Carou- . sei,” and he reports both a great t similaity and a great difference . between the TV and motion pic- • ture approach. i “The cameras see the linear I design and that makes for sirni- ? lar composition. But the tech- ■ niques are different In the mov- . ies, we rehearsed two months for . an eight-minute dance sequence.

You never get that much time on TV.” New Mayor I HOLYOKE. Mass. — (IP) — A Jewish immigrant who came to America at the age of six is the new mayor of predominantly IrishCatholic Holyoke. Samuel Resnic, 58, a lawyer and chairman of the board of aidermen, topped his nearest opponently by 4,745 votefe in the four-candidate contest.

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The Wrong Bog GREENWICH, Conn. W -t- After buying what he thought was a bag of nuts, Peter Keubish found he had $252.37 instead. He returned to the store to find the distraught manager looking for the day’s receipts which he had placed in the bag. pending deposit in a bank, i Over 1,158,566,000 acres of land were devoted to farming in the United States during 1950, as opposed to 293,561,000 for the, year 1850