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...judge by last year's furore over Ballerina Alicia Markova, she was the only occupant of ballet's top drawer. Last week the other occupant was getting some of her due. Crowds jammed Manhattan's City Center to see Alexandra Danilova, last of Diaghilev's prima ballerinas, as the Street Dancer in Le Beau Danube and the Queen in Swan Lake...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prima Ballerina | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...Kind." Though Danilova has settled in the U.S., her most enthusiastic public is in London, the home of sad-faced Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks), her rival queen of ballet. The two danseuses nobles profess the deepest friendship, ever since the day in 1928 when Diaghilev introduced 14-year-old Alice, a promising member of the corps de ballet, to 24-year-old Danilova, the prima ballerina. But each recollects the occasion with a fine underline of feminine malice. Markova considered Danilova as "very handsome, plump. . . ." Danilova remembers Markova as "very thin, very tiny . . . I try to be kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Prima Ballerina | 9/24/1945 | See Source »

...this and a lot more is hung on the sort of story Fred Allen used to contrive for the dramatic half of each week's broadcast: Fred Floogle (Mr. Allen), a Flea Circus Diaghilev, falls heir to his uncle's multimillion fortune, which attorneys have managed to reduce to five chairs and a pool table. By the time Floogle learns that one of the chairs contains a considerable stash of cash, he is heavily in debt and under suspicion of murdering the uncle, and the chairs are all over town. His search for them involves visits...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Cinema: New Picture, Apr. 23, 1945 | 4/23/1945 | See Source »

Seldom, if ever, had Manhattan's chill Metropolitan Museum employed such warmly seductive tactics. Its exhibition of "Costumes from the Forbidden City" (in Peking) was a three-part combination of Max Reinhardt spectacle, Diaghilev ballet, and Barnum & Bailey side show...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Splendid Spectacle | 3/19/1945 | See Source »

Last week the Ballet Russe, after its biggest touring season (80 cities in the U.S. and Canada) was in the midst of a five-week Manhattan engagement. It was performing ballets in Diaghilev's best classical tradition. But the big novelty in Manhattan was a rowdy, corn-likkered, genuinely U.S. ballet: Frankie and Johnnie, an adaptation of a well-known U.S. folk ballad...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: American Ballet | 3/12/1945 | See Source »

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