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Tilly Losch, febrific terpsichorean contortionist, the wife (on inactive status) of the Earl of Carnarvon, discussed her lives for a Manhattan society columnist. "My role of ballerina comes first. Second is my work as a choreographer. My acting comes third, my painting fourth. I rate my role as Lady Carnarvon fifth in importance simply because I can't think of anything interesting to put after painting...
...ballet companies were dancing out a personal feud between two former partners: American Ballerina Lucia Chase and Russian-born Sol Hurok, the Little White Father of ballet in America. Last spring Miss Chase canceled her contract with Hurok and took her troupe to London, where they packed Covent Garden for two months. Thereupon Manager Hurok imported the Russian troupe from South America and bolstered it up with the peerless Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks of London) and other favorites. Then the two companies booked parallel autumn seasons, and the battle...
...University of Belgrade Kiev-born Igor Youskevitch studied chemical engineering and played soccer. "It was my second year when a ballerina there made a proposition for me to be her partner in an acrobatic dance," says Youskevitch. They were a success in Yugoslavia, so they went to Paris. "We did couple concerts. There we're flop. Then the ballerina had to go home. I think it was her husband or something...
Youskevitch toured Australia and New Zealand with an itinerant company, then Leonide Massine made him the leading dancer in the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo. That brought him to America, where he was drafted and became a Navy physical-education instructor. He is married to ex-Ballerina Anna Scarpova. Their ten-month-old daughter Maria, Youskevitch says, "stays on her pointes very good." During his first week with the new Ballet Theater company Youskevitch appeared only in three short pas de deux with Ballerinas Alicia Alonso and Nora Kaye. For the rest of the season he will dance leads...
Married. George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovich Balinchinvadze), 42, famed Russian-born choreographer, onetime director of the Piaghilev Russian Ballet and the American Ballet; and Ballerina Maria Tallchief, 21, his Irish-Osage Indian protegee; she for the first time, he for the fourth; in Manhattan...