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"High Button Shoes" (1947)
Ballerinas following the steps of Jerome Robbins, who choreographed “High Button Shoes,” a musical comedy that, according to The Times, the pit musicians called “The Ballet of the Bleeding Lips.” “If anything approaching the pandemonium of this ballet occurred on a city street the riot squads would be summoned forthwith,” it was reported.