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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...LEWIS ELVIN Arlington...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Letters, Jan. 13, 1958 | 1/13/1958 | See Source »

...than either plot or music, for it was further indication that she is the heiress presumptive to Margot Fonteyn as the company's prima ballerina. Born in Lithuania, Svetlana trained in New York and Paris, joined Sadler's Wells in 1950. With the retirement of Dancer Violetta Elvin (to marry for the third time), Beriosova stepped into more and more of Fonteyn's roles. More enthusiastically than ever, the critics applauded her lithe, leggy build, her cool, fluid movements, which are reminiscent of the early Fonteyn's. Although the restrictions of Pagodas' choreography gave...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Heiress Presumptive | 1/14/1957 | See Source »

Ebby Donaldson scored first for the home team at 4:28 picking up a Crimson clearing pass in front of the nets, and then wing Elvin Beabien followed with the last A.I.C. tally just twenty seconds later...

Author: NO WRITER ATTRIBUTED | Title: Hockey Team Edges A.I.C., 4-2; Goalie Foils 50 Varsity Attempts | 1/11/1957 | See Source »

...path of an oncoming train, collected from his insurance company. Last Labor Day a mysterious gas explosion damaged the Crown-A; the insurance company realized that it had been staged, but reluctantly paid Jack's claim. "He was an average personality but with some strange ideas," said Elvin West, a neighbor. "He once said to me, 'I'd do anything for money.' " And Jack knew that his mother had money -well over...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: CRIME: The Christmas Present | 11/28/1955 | See Source »

...back again. Inexplicable characters dashed in and out of the ballet, including copulating snakes and a tiny girl equipped with brass breastplates, whose face is blue-black on one side, chalk-white on the other. The production's one real merit: the sensuous dancing of dark-haired Violetta Elvin as Tiresias the Woman, and especially the moment when her partner lifts the ballerina and moves her across stage as she takes huge, slow strides as if she were running in a dream landscape...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Music: Pirouette & Pageantry | 9/26/1955 | See Source »

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