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...proved to be not only top-flight Hindemith but the finest contemporary ballet music Manhattanites had heard since the palmiest days of Igor Stravinsky. To its subtly suggestive, drypoint phrases, Saint Francis (Choreographer Massine), in a medieval setting, pursued his ideal of Poverty (paradoxically embodied by demure, eye-filling Ballerina Theilade), tamed a big bad wolf, ardently embraced his very tangible ideal, and ended by miming a fervent hymn of praise...
Modern Zionist dancers have long studied and imitated the traditional dances of the Yemenite Jews. Prominent among these Zionist dancers is Moscow-born Rina Nikova, former prima ballerina of Palestine's Tel Aviv Opera. While working in Palestine, Ballerina Nikova's interest in the Yemenite Jews became so absorbing that she spent months living in their villages learning their customs and dances at first hand. Upshot of her study was the formation in 1932 of a ballet troupe of seven dark-eyed, black-haired Yemenite girls. Because the girls sang as well as danced, she called her troupe...
Following the lead of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera, Chicago's City Opera last week decided to change its ballet next season. Invited to replace slim-limbed Ballet Mistress Ruth Page was Philadelphia's blonde Ballerina Catherine Littlefield...
Meanwhile, Philadelphia's Caricaturist Louis Hirshman happened to issue a biting caricature of Miss Littlefield. Outraged Ballerina Littlefield marched fuming to Philadelphia's Artists' Union to see the caricature, tore it in half (see cut) and (according to press reports) slapped Caricaturist Hirshman. Later Miss Littlefield denied the slap, called it just a push. "My impulse," she continued, "is never to hit. I incline to the tearing of limb from limb...
...largest crowds that has ever assembled in and around a College dining-room was foiled last night when Vera Zorina, glamorous ballerina of the "Goldwyn Follies" and "I Married an Angel," failed to make her heralded appearance in Pierson at dinner-time...