Word: balletomania
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...country with little history of balletomania, the U.S. has made amends in grand fashion since 1945. In the post war years, the U.S. has brought forth first-rate dance companies in breath-taking abundance-and the latest to appear belongs near the top of the list. Currently in its first Manhattan engagement after three years of barnstorming, the Harkness Ballet has generated among audiences a brand of excitement that brings back memories of the early days of the New York City Ballet...
...becoming the U.S. version of Diaghilev himself (TIME, Jan. 26, 1953). An heir to a Filene department-store fortune in Boston, he was an editor of the arts magazine Hound & Horn, author of a rash first novel and a book of poetry, and teetering on the edge of balletomania. His dream: to found a truly American ballet company. There was nothing for it but to get the world's foremost Russian choreographer to spark it. Balanchine came...
...story is a Hecht original: a great dancer (Ivan Kirov), subject to fits of homicidal insanity, marries a budding ballerina (Viola Essen), who hopes that his dancing and her love will work a cure. Great Teacher Judith Anderson and threadbare Impresario Michael Chekhov, torn between terror and balletomania, hover unhappily in the wings. Another sideliner, Poet Lionel Stander, grates out Mr. Hecht's own highly debatable views on Love & Art, and dashes an occasional gruelly tear from his granitic eye. To climax a triumphant tour, the dancer's mind finally cracks and he turns...
Divorced. By Vera Zorina, 29 (German-born Eva Brigitta Hartwig), whom Hollywood and a beautiful body have made the poor man's ballerina: George Balanchine (real name: Georgei Melitonovitch Balanchivadze), 42, crack choreographer whose fine Russian hand helped arouse Broadway's current balletomania; after seven years of marriage, no children; in Reno...
...Balletomania-Simon & Schuster...
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