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Britain's butterfly-light (100 Ibs.) Ballerina Alicia Marlcova, who was recently barred from dancing in Liverpool's Philharmonic Hall because "she might damage the delicate machinery under the stage," arrived in Liverpool and pirouetted on more solid boards. Scene of her performance: Liverpool's boxing stadium...
Communist Russia has always been a proud patron of the ballet, possibly because one of the Bolshevik Revolution's opening oratorical guns was fired from a ballerina's love nest...
...proclaimed the start of worldwide revolution. Before it became Bolshevik headquarters, that villa had been occupied by Mathilde Kchessinska, once Czar Nicholas II's great & good friend, certainly one of the best dancers of all time and one of two ever to bear the lofty title of prima ballerina assoluta.* In Berlin last week, another ballerina was given that title by sentimental oldtimers: Galina Ulanova, 44, the darling of the Soviet Ballet...
...Italy's Pierina Legnani, who startled the Russians with her famous 32 fouettés (whipping turns) in 1893. She died in 1923. Kchessinska, 81, still lives in Paris, with her husband, the Grand Duke André, 75. The Duke does the daily shopping while the Absolute Ballerina gives ballet lessons and does a little polite gambling on the side...
...happily scattered to do some sightseeing. They made careful notes on historical details, placed flowers on the tombs of Victor Hugo and Chopin, visited a cellar nightclub (and were so startled by the boisterous interest their appearance created that they rushed back to their hotel). Offstage, 44-year-old Ballerina Galina Ulanova was almost as much of a sensation as Paris expected her to be behind the footlights...