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Before leaving on a reporting trip to Indo-China, Writer Graham Greene accepted the invitation of Sir Alexander Korda for a cruise on the Korda yacht Elsewhere around the Greek islands, through the Dardanelles to Istanbul. Among the other glittering guests: Sir Laurence and Lady Olivier, Ballerina Margot Fonteyn...
London ballet fans who argue happily over the relative merits of Sadler's Wells' ballerinas Margot Fonteyn and Moira (The Red Shoes) Shearer, had the rare chance last week to compare both dancers in the same ballet. Moira, ready to dance the lead in Symphonic Variations after a four-month layoff, switched plans just before opening, when one of the two other girl dancers fell ill. Since no one else knew both parts, Moira stepped down to take it; Margot was called in to dance the lead. Said the critics next day: "Moira is taller, more girlish...
...production of Swan Lake in Los Angeles' Shrine Auditorium last week, and wrote: "From the muffled whispers in the row behind me, I gathered that four elderly ladies, sitting together, were experts on the whole performance. They chatted knowingly about Ninette de Valois' discovery of Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, discussed the merits of Karsavina, Pavlova, Markova, noted the fact that Danseur Michael Somes had spent four years in the British army during the war. During the intermission, I turned round, curious to see these well-informed critics. They looked as if they might have been schoolteachers, and they were...
After bowing through innumerable curtain calls, Sadler's Wells Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn hurried backstage at the Metropolitan Opera House to accept the greetings of British delegate to the U.N. Sir Gladwyn Jebb. Convinced that her countryman's superlative performance at Lake Success deserved something special too, the dancer personally fitted a dark red rose into Sir Gladwyn's lapel...
...soon." She had impressive evidence to the contrary. When the golden curtain at the Met fell on the ballet's brilliant opening-night performance of Swan Lake this week, the packed house and the critics seemed unanimous. Sadler's Wells with its faun-eyed Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn, its crack corps de ballet and its handsome staging, was every bit as good as remembered...