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...Pianist Emil Gilels headed West for a guest appearance with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the first U.S. performance by a topflight Soviet musician since 1921; Violinist David Oistrakh will come soon for a U.S. concert tour, followed, perhaps, by famed Ballerina Galina Ulanova...
...Soviet Union's lissome Galina Ulanova, 44, a celebrated ballerina who also nimbly toes the political line, gave an audience to the New York Herald Tribune's comely Newshen Marguerite Higgins, who opened the conversation by asking: "Has your career . . . brought you happiness...
...occupied by Mathilde Kchessinska, once Czar Nicholas II's great & good friend, certainly one of the best dancers of all time and one of two ever to bear the lofty title of prima ballerina assoluta.* In Berlin last week, another ballerina was given that title by sentimental oldtimers: Galina Ulanova, 44, the darling of the Soviet Ballet...
Gymnastics & Glides. Leading Berlin ballet critics gave TIME this estimate: The corps is equal in precision and grace to any in the West. The male dancers are strong and athletic, but they are rarely graceful and are seldom soloists. Among the ballerinas, Galina Ulanova is not absolutely assoluta. When on pointes, she moves so delicately that she seems to 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...
...scattered to do some sightseeing. They made careful notes on historical details, placed flowers on the tombs of Victor Hugo and Chopin, visited a cellar nightclub (and were so startled by the boisterous interest their appearance created that they rushed back to their hotel). Offstage, 44-year-old Ballerina Galina Ulanova was almost as much of a sensation as Paris expected her to be behind the footlights...