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...judge by last year's furore over Ballerina Alicia Markova, she was the only occupant of ballet's top drawer. Last week the other occupant was getting some of her due. Crowds jammed Manhattan's City Center to see Alexandra Danilova, last of Diaghilev's prima ballerinas, as the Street Dancer in Le Beau Danube and the Queen in Swan Lake...
...distributed $2,400 in prizes. As usual, portraits of pearl-bearing dowagers vied for space with well-bred views of picturesque squalor. As usual, the show was judiciously peppered with a few works by well-established modernists (Philip Ever-good, William Cropper, Stanley W. Hayter). Typical Academy prizewinner was Alicia Sundt Motts's Bouquet d'Amour, a tangle of plausible roses, lilies, pansies, baby's breath and almost edible cupids. Another notable prizewinner: Grappling the Lost Anchor, by famed Illustrator Harrison ("Peter Rabbit") Cady. Net impression on most visitors: more of the same...
...similarly chilling material given Comic Bert Lahr and Patter Merchant Doc Rockwell leaves them no choice but to freeze with it. Although Ballerina Alicia Markova rises above an unexciting Stravinsky ballet to display her dazzling technique, she misses the final magic of her dancing. Benny Goodman, as usual, toots his clarinet with equal skill in a hot ensemble and a classical solo...
...celebrating French liberation. She had sent out the invitations in early August, while the Allies were still in Normandy. Said she: "I just had a hunch-anyway, France is very close to my heart. Some of my best parties were given there." Among the entertainers: Pianist Artur Rubinstein, Ballerina Alicia Markova, Funnyman Danny Kaye, Songstress Judy Garland. Cinemactor Charles Boyer (reciting La Marseillaise), Elsa herself (playing the Star-Spangled Banner). Among the guests: blue-haired Internationalist Lady Mendl, red-haired Greer Garson, black-haired Authoress Anita Loos, cigar-ash-grey-color haired Evalyn Walsh McLean (with her Hope diamond...
...Some of the best-known: Tamara Toumanova (RKO's Days of Glory), Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!), Sono Osato (One Touch of Venus), Irina Baronova (Follow the Girls), Alicia Markova, signed for a Broadway debut in Billy Rose's Seven Lively Arts...