Word: ballerina
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...week budget, only a fraction was coming in at the box office. The rest was coming from the company's dance-daft angel, Lucia Chase, widow of Yonkers' carpet tycoon, Thomas Ewing Jr. Unlike most ballet patrons, Angel Chase is a professional ballerina, dances bit solo roles, solemnly draws a $75 weekly paycheck while regularly losing an estimated $150,000 a year making up the Ballet Theatre's deficit. A trouper who once used to pirouette with famed Dancer Mikhail Mordkin, Ballerina Chase spends her winters touring with the company, has a summer home at Narragansett, occasionally...
...life, and his performance is one that should not be missed. He is best supported by his daughter, Paula, and by Nancy Duncan, who play his grand-daughter and daughter respectively. Nancy Duncan again shows her versatility as an actress in the role of the truly bird-brained awkward ballerina. These three carry the performance with the able help of Jacqueline DeSuz in the tiny role of a drunken actress. The rest of the cast lacks the precision which such comedies require and as a result there are moments when the antics of this strange family become less than humorous...
...women from shops, offices and hotels were drafted to bring in wood for winter fuel. Before a performance of the ballet Don Quixote it was announced that Premiere Ballerina Merserer would not appear. She was stiff from chopping wood...
...year and a half after Paramount first announced that it had considered somebody for the role of Maria in For Whom the Bell Tolls, the studio was still announcing it. Last week's favorite: Ballerina Vera Zorina...
...Life (taken from Lady Eleanor Smith's novel, Ballerina) was originally scheduled as a picture for Vera Zorina, whose ballet-conditioned muscles (plus a more inspired script) might have made something out of this old-world period piece. As it is, the picture takes a long time saying that the lot of a ballerina is indeed tough...