Word: balletomania
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
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