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...Unfinished Dance (M-G-M). Little Margaret O'Brien, a "sparrow" (apprentice) in a ballet theater, has a schoolgirl crush on Cyd Charisse, a promising ballerina. Margaret hates Karin Booth, the premiere danseuse, because she thinks Cyd should have the top ballerina's job. If only something awful would happen to Karin...
Married. Yehudi Menuhin, 31, violin virtuoso; and British Ballerina Diana Gould, 33, daughter of a concert pianist, stepdaughter of a British admiral; he for the second time, she for the first; 17 days after his first divorced him; in London...
Stomping Dignity. Pearl Primus is no filmy ballerina. Her forte is force. Says she: "My body is built for heavy stomping, powerful dignity." She usually dances to an accompaniment of pulsing drums. In one of her new works, Santo, a psychological study of the clash of Voodooism and Christianity in Cuba, fascinated students watched an exhibition of primitive, pantherlike power and grace. In The Shouters of Sobo, a work based on the traditions of African stonecutters, students got a lesson in gripping, concentrated intensity. With muscled shoulders hunched over bended knees, her powerful arms pounding, her whole body dynamically dramatic...
Divorced. By the Countess of Carnarvon, 45, the former Tilly Losch, onetime Viennese premiere ballerina who changed her style, rose to fame in the '30s as an interpretative dancer: the Earl of Carnarvon, 58, on charges of adultery which he declined to contest (two years ago he failed to get a divorce on the grounds that Tilly had sailed off to the U.S. in 1940, leaving him and the blitz behind); after eight years of marriage, no children; in England...
Jerome Robbins' Pas de Trois, a posturing satire on classical ballet done to Berlioz' thundering Damnation of Faust. In it two men and a ballerina maneuver to upstage each other; one mugs shamelessly, another surreptitiously corrects a pose, or looks bewildered and terrified when he can't remember what he is expected to do next. Good clean fun, and skillfully done, it is also a symptom of ballet's present introversion. Pas de Trois was postponed twice because of Ballerina Alicia Markova's illness, was finally put on without her. Critics found her substitute, veteran...