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...usual, the epitome of that world was Margot Fonteyn, who again opened the U.S. tour with Sleeping Beauty. She was nimble and fleet, as a princess should be, poised and incredibly effortless as she accepted her suitors' greetings in the arduous Rose adagio, where even the most accomplished technician is apt to teeter unhappily as she stands stock-still on one pointe and accepts a rose from four courtiers, one after the other...
...range from Puccini's Madame Butterfly through a new English version of Mozart's The Magic Flute and Tchaikovsky's Eugen Onegin to world premieres of two new operas: Lukas Foss's Griffelkin and Stanley Hollingsworth's La Grande Breteche. Britain's Margot Fonteyn will dance in the ballet, The Sleeping Beauty. Ex-Ambassador Chester Bowles will give an hour-long report on India, and The Constant Husband, starring Rex Harrison and Margaret Leighton, will be the first full-length movie to be presented on TV before being released to movie theaters...
Married. Margot Fonteyn (real name: Peggy Hookham), 35, prima ballerina of Britain's famed Sadler's Wells company; and Roberto Arias, 36, lawyer and son of Panama's onetime (1932-36) President Harmodio Arias; she for the first time, he for the second; in Paris...
...last week with a schedule of no less than 170 events by eight orchestras seven choruses, six chamber orchestras' and quartets, one ballet, one opera and five dramatic companies. First week's highlight was the Sadler's Wells Ballet production of Firebird, starring brilliant Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, who in the title role seemed as quick as an imp out ot hell, as fluttery as a butterfly...
...glide, but Ulanova indulges in plenty of cape-swishing and distraught breast-beating. When she sticks to her own soft type of dance movement, she is superb. In classical technique, she is as good as the best U.S. ballerinas, if not quite up to England's Margot Fonteyn...