Music: The Devil's Due

The girls from Miss McClellan's and Miss Williams' finishing school once saw Billy Sunday do his stuff at a revival meeting. Like the others, Ruth Page came away humming Brighten the Corner Where You Are. Last week Choreographer Page brightened a corner of Broadway with what she remembered of that meeting.

At Manhattan's City Center, balletomanes found her new "dance sermon" Billy Sunday (or Giving the Devil His Due) good, saucy fun, if not always good ballet. Ballet Russe's stars Frederic Franklin and Alexandra Danilova not only danced, but spokeĀ—and to everyone's surprise,...

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