Word: hurokchik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Hurok bagged Dancer Anna Pavlova, who called him "Hurokchik." In the next four years her tours, on which he often accompanied her. netted the two of them $500,000. Two other Hurok dancers were the late Isadora Duncan, who fortified herself with whiskey and champagne, left a confetti-like whirl of bouncing checks wherever she went; and Loie Fuller, whose tour was supposed to be keyed to the ludicrous U. S. progress of her friend Queen Marie of Rumania. Other attractions launched in the U. S. by Hurok: Basso Feodor Chaliapin, Contralto Marian Anderson, Dancer Mary Wigman, the Vienna Choir...
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