Word: alexandra
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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Will Japan ever wholly succumb to Western ballet and give up its traditional dancing? Not likely, thinks another recent visitor, Ballerina Alexandra Danilova. "Our dance is like flower, open out this way," she says, assisting her Russian accent by opening out her fists. Then, closing them again, she added: "Japanese dance is like flower, closing up this...
...third in line, after her nephew Prince Charles, 6. Duke of Cornwall, and her niece, 5, Princess Anne. Following Margaret come 4) the Duke of Gloucester, 5) Prince William of Gloucester, 6) Prince Richard of Gloucester, 7) the Duke of Kent, 8) Prince Michael of Kent, 9) Princess Alexandra of Kent, 10) the Princess Royal, Margaret's aunt and the daughter of King George V and Queen Mary. ** She is now married to John de Lazlo, the co-respondent in the suit. Her two sons, though awarded to Peter by the court, live with her. The elder...
...Duplessis, the real Camille. "Seven gentlemen pooled their money to keep her, and each was given a separate night of the week to visit her. They symbolized their collective devotion by combining to present her with a magnificent dressing-table containing seven drawers." Marie was 18 and notorious when Alexandra Dumas the Younger fell in love with her. She warned him off bluntly: "[I am] a woman who spits blood and spends a hundred thousand francs a year." But young Dumas insisted-and one year later tottered ruefully away, brokenhearted and loaded with debts...
Before World War II, only about 300 girls in Manila studied ballet, but during the postwar years, the visits of topnotch foreign dancers-Alicia Markova, Alexandra Danilova, Frederic Franklin et al.-have upped enrollment in ballet schools to approximately...
After about 15 months of separation and wrangling over divorce terms, Yugoslavia's jobless ex-King Peter, 31, and his wife, Princess Alexandra, 33, suddenly kissed and made up. Peter headed for the Swiss mountain resort of Gstaad for a surprise reunion with Alexandra and their son, Prince Alexander, 9. Reported a friend who saw their delayed meeting: "They just fell into each other's arms un der the Christmas tree, and they have been like lovers ever since." But there was a small blight on their new-found bliss...