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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...
Child with a Future. Margaret Hookham studied in London until she was eight. Her life was little different from that of most well-brought-up, middle-class English girls, except that she was allowed to spend as much time dancing as she liked, and had a governess to tutor her in her other lessons. In 1927, when the family lived briefly in Louisville while Papa Hookham studied American cigarette-making machinery, Margaret could find no ballet teachers, took tap-dancing lessons instead...
Ninette de Valois had seen that too. When Mrs. Hookham asked, "Is it worth spending more money on Margaret's lessons?"De Valois answered simply: "Nothing that you can spend on that child will be wasted. She has a future...
...already adopted her mother's maiden name ("Who could dance with a name like Hookham?"), still later changed Fontes to Fonteyn (pronounced Fontaine). She worked with Markova in ballet after ballet, studying her technique, watching every motion and emotion...
...call London's 15-year-old Sadler's Wells company the National Ballet, and take pride in the fact that it owes little to the Russians. Margot Fonteyn is, in a complicated way, English. She was brought up in Shanghai, the daughter of an English tobaccoman named Hookham and a Mexican mother from whom she inherited an exotically high-cheeked face. She joined Sadler's Wells at 14. Two years later Fonteyn's arabesques appealed to the patriotism of the Morning Post: "Here, at last, is an English girl who dances with her soul...