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Irina Baronova, popular White Russian pin-up girl of the Red Army, ballerina of the Manhattan musical Follow the Girls, had a new narcissus named for her by the Horticultural Society of New York...
Meanwhile in Moscow, last week, an audience that had practically forgotten about The Red Poppy crammed the Bolshoi Theater for the crowning event of the Moscow ballet season. The event was about as revolutionary as the late Czarina's tiara. It consisted of top-flight Soviet Ballerina Lepeshinskaya leaping through the enchanted 19th Century fairyland of Tchaikovsky's The Sleeping Beauty...
...perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls are good-looking, its sets handsome, its costumes stylish...
Irina Baranova is an accomplished ballerina, although on opening night she was nervous and a trifle uncertain in her movements. To throw a few orchids, the chorus numbers are capably danced and fast-paced and Howard Bay's sets are ingenious and attractive...
Katherine Dunham, Negro ballerina, drew attention to the fact that in her Tropical Revue she wears a pearl in her navel instead of a diamond-because Gypsy Rose Lee had copied the diamond...