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...Soviet Union's plumpish (37-25-38) Cinemactress Irina (Othello) Skobtseva disclosed that feminine curves do not jibe with the serpentine Soviet party line. Said Irina: "We've never heard of sex appeal in Russia. It doesn't count and has nothing to do with art." Distending her ample bosom, she added: "In the Soviet Union, we do not pose in bathing costumes...
Glossy-haired, 46-year-old Dancer-Choreographer Massine, a veteran of at least six richly endowed ballet companies, knows where the money goes. Instead of the orthodox company of 30 or 40, he has just six capable dancers - Irina Baronova, Andre Eglevsky, Rosella Hightower, Yurek Lazowsky, Kathryn Lee, Anna Istomina -trained to perform in quick succession the twelve to 16 short ballets he will crowd into each program. In a pre-tour show at Manhattan's Lewisohn Stadium last week, the Highlights company danced against a black backdrop; in Montreal, where the audience surrounded the platform, the decor consisted...
...Some of the best-known: Tamara Toumanova (RKO's Days of Glory), Joan McCracken (Oklahoma!), Sono Osato (One Touch of Venus), Irina Baronova (Follow the Girls), Alicia Markova, signed for a Broadway debut in Billy Rose's Seven Lively Arts...
...Irina Baronova, popular White Russian pin-up girl of the Red Army, ballerina of the Manhattan musical Follow the Girls, had a new narcissus named for her by the Horticultural Society of New York...
...perfection. But for the unchoosy pleasure-seekers and visiting firemen who swarm over Broadway, it should nicely fill the bill. It spills over with good humor. It boasts a lot of good people-likably tough Singer Gertrude Niesen, likably loony Comic Jackie Gleason, pert Dancer Dorothy Keller, graceful Ballerina Irina Baronova. Its dancing has zest and spin. Its girls are good-looking, its sets handsome, its costumes stylish...