Word: de
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...gentleman all in pink who soars through the young girl's room (Le Spectre de la Rose), the fantastically white-faced can-can dancer in La Boutique Fantasque, the jolly hussy of a street dancer in Le Beau Danube, the slim bluebird and her lightly-leaping partner in Aurora's Wedding-these favorite characters of U. S. ballet fans were once more on the stage of Manhattan's Metropolitan Opera House last week. They were personified by Paul Petroff, Léonide Massine, Alexandra Danilova, Tatiana Riabouchinska and David Lichine of the Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo...
...missing from the de Basil line-up this year is Tamara Toumanova-one of the three ballerinas who at their debuts were so publicized for their beauty and tender years. She is now in Hollywood. In her absence Sono Osato, a Japanese-American trained under Adolph Bolm, one of the company's youngest dancers (17), is by far its most exotic looking. As a dancer, she has not yet advanced beyond petit sujet (ranking in ballet hierarchy above a corypheé, below a grand sujet). Irina Baronova, now 18, is a brilliant and imaginative artist, still addicted to lengthening...
This week Dancer Lichine, increasingly a disciplined, powerful artist, showed his mettle as a choreographer who may be useful to Colonel de Basil when veteran Massine departs. The troupe's three other new ballets were all done by him, performed in London during the summer. The Gods Go ABegging, music by Handel, is an old Diaghilev work, with old scenery by Bakst. With décor by Pierre Roy, French modernist, The Amorous Lion is based on a fable by La Fontaine which begins with this couplet: Love, love, when you invade our hearts, That moment common sense departs...
Married. Winifred Birkin War,. London socialite, divorced wife of Rt. Hon. William Dudley Ward, onetime (1917-22) Vice-Chamberlain of the King's Household; to Marquis de Casa Maury, Cuban operator of a Mayfair cinemansion; in London. Mrs. Ward for years was the favorite dancing partner and friend of the Duke of Windsor, then Prince of Wales...
When a frightened young woman (Olivia de Havilland) arrives with a fluttery story about a wrecked coach, Garrick accepts her as part of the plot, grandly surrenders his rooms to her. While he feigns concern for her safety and distress during the continued ructions, he decides she is a very bad actress. Later he tells her so, then beats the French at their own game, by impersonating one of their members. When he reveals himself there are mutual apologies and gallant toasts all round; but the girl has fled. In Paris he looks for her backstage, discovers that, sure enough...