Word: fonteyns
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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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...
...beyond expenses. Dollar triumph aside. London was simply glad to have Sadler's Wells back. Usually reserved Covent Gardeners gave them tier upon tier of applause at each solo entrance (in a full-length Sleeping Beauty, all but brought down the venerable house when Prima Ballerina Margot Fonteyn came...
Said Ballerina Fonteyn: "I've never known it to happen before at Covent Garden. It makes a wonderful difference to be applauded when you first...