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...Trouble I've Seen. In the U.S. the ovation continued. Only one notably ugly incident marred her triumph. In Washington, the management of Constitution Hall, owned by the Daughters of the American Revolution, announced that it would be unable to lease the hall on the date which Sol Hurok, Miss Anderson's manager, had asked for. The refusal resulted in Eleanor Roosevelt's resignation from the D.A.R. and an enormous ground swell of sympathy for Miss Anderson and her people. Miss Anderson, who has carefully, kept herself and her art from being" used for political purposes, said...
...company will need every esthetic and material resource at hand to last through the fight to the finish now being waged. When the Ballet Theatre finally broke from impresario Sol Hurok last spring, it found itself for the first time happily without that gentleman's strong hand at its throat, but it also found itself without the financial organization which Hurok has built up through the country. The results have become apparent already, and they seem to be serious. In its first two stops of the 1946-47 season, New York and Boston, the Ballet Theatre has arrived in town...
Original Ballet Russe--Sel Hurok's potpourri, straight from the Met, arrives at the Opera House tonight...
...ballet companies were dancing out a personal feud between two former partners: American Ballerina Lucia Chase and Russian-born Sol Hurok, the Little White Father of ballet in America. Last spring Miss Chase canceled her contract with Hurok and took her troupe to London, where they packed Covent Garden for two months. Thereupon Manager Hurok imported the Russian troupe from South America and bolstered it up with the peerless Alicia Markova (born Alice Marks of London) and other favorites. Then the two companies booked parallel autumn seasons, and the battle...
...artistic odds might be all with Ballet Theater, but canny Sol Hurok was not worrying. The name Hurok in combination with Metropolitan Opera House is still box office. Hurok's old-fashioned Ballet Russe was drawing crowds twice as big as its rival...