Word: ballerina
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...older but better," boasted spry Choreographer George Balanchine, 72, after arriving in Paris for the first visit in eleven years by his New York City Ballet company. Accompanied by prodigal Ballerina Suzanne Farrell, 31, who had rejoined the Balanchine troupe after a 4½-year stint with the Bejart ballet in Brussels, the dance master made a trip to the jewelry shop of Van Cleef & Arpels. The reason: Balanchine's dazzling ballet Jewels, which had its French premiere last week, had been inspired 15 years ago by Claude Arpels, president of the jewelry company's Fifth Avenue branch...
Even as a youngster growing up on 110th Street in New York's Harlem, Williams was the darling of the culture-craving women of the family. His grandmother entertained him by reciting Longfellow. His twin sister, Loretta, an aspiring ballerina, pirouetted through the apartment. Their mother had studied to become an opera singer, instead operated an elevator to work for her children's education. Young Billy earned extra money by drawing his own comic books and selling them to school chums for a nickel. At 19, he hoped to become a fashion illustrator. But a chance meeting with...
...since I have never played pinochle in my life." In the line of duty, however, Barnes attended another performance of the ballet (about the ax-wielding Lizzie Borden) and wrote a glowing review of Marcia Haydée, who was guest dancer with the American Ballet Theater. Unpleased was Ballerina Sallie Wilson, the ABT regular who has danced the lead role impeccably for many seasons without getting what she considers to be a fair shake from Barnes. "I've had a whole career that he's ignored," she fumed. "Then he meets me at parties and gives...
Marriage Revealed. Cynthia Gregory, 29, America's foremost prima ballerina, currently in voluntary exile; and John Hemminger, 34, formerly the manager of singer Tim Hardin; she for the second time, he for the first; in Santo Domingo...
...good and bad ways, this picture helps one remember the story about W.C. Fields and the writer who asked him who the world's greatest comedian was. "I am," said Fields. Well what about Chaplin, the interviewer asked. "Chaplin," Fields answered. "He's no comedian. He's a goddamn ballerina." One takes heart in the knowledge that by the time he made his next feature, Monsieur Verdoux, Chaplin had learned how to turn his blue-streaking tendencies into an advantage. One other thing; the last speech is rather moving (as much because of the actor as the writer) no matter...