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Divorced. By Vera Zorina, 29 (German-born Eva Brigitta Hartwig), whom Hollywood and a beautiful body have made the poor man's ballerina: George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 42, crack choreographer whose fine Russian hand helped arouse Broadway's current balletomania; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
Married. Margaret Rutherford, 53, the late Mrs. William K. Vanderbilt's daughter who became ballerina, cultist (Oom the Omnipotent), husband collector; and Prince Charles Michael Joachim Napoleon Murat, 53, great-grandnephew of Napoleon Bonaparte; she for the fifth time (once before to Murat), he for the second (she was also his first); in Manhattan...
...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...
...faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind to her." Queenly Danilova, who has some of the manners of a grande dame, has only scorn...
After Impresario Diaghilev's death, the Ballet Russe was taken over by an ex-Cossack, Colonel Wassily de Basil, has since split into a number of pieces, each claiming to be the truest chip off the old block. Markova eventually became No. 1 ballerina of the heavily subsidized, well-promoted Ballet Theatre. Danilova has spent seven years as queen bee of a company called the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo, which has a ballet corps well drilled in ex-Husband Balanchine's intricate geometric designs but is woefully short of top dancers...