Word: dolinoff
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People were struck by the sparkling costumes, an ingenious unfolding backdrop, a big spidery web which the Prince had to rip aside to reach the Princess. The dancers were more energetic than exact. Russian Alexis Dolinoff, as Prince Désiré, was a worse dancer than U. S.-born Thomas Cannon (Prince-from-the-North). As the heroine, Miss Littlefield danced cleanly and classically...
From that nucleus grew the Littlefield Ballet, later the Philadelphia Ballet Company. When, in 1932, Stokowski gave the world premiere of the Mexican ballet H. P. (see col. 3), Catherine Littlefield plotted the choreography. Alexis Dolinoff danced the lead. When the Philadelphia Ballet ran short of men a year ago, Catherine Littlefield signed up her air-pilot brother, Carl. Last week he made a graceful Prince-from-the-West, easily outstripped the other minor characters. Another Littlefield, young sister Dorothie, also filled in ably...
Dancers in Diego Rivera costumes proceeded to enact the story of H. P. Russian Alexis Dolinoff appeared first, wearing an electric coil or two and a welder's visor. On his back the letters H. P. identified him like a football player. The libretto said he was "in the plenitude of his intellect, sentiments and physical powers...
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