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...longings turning to frustrations and regrets. The three Prozoroff sisters and their brother Andrey live discontentedly in a dull provincial town. Olga, the eldest (Judith Anderson), is already half-doomed to schoolteaching and spinsterhood. Masha, the second sister (Katharine Cornell), is a bored neurotic married to a fatuous pedant. Irina, the youngest (Gertrude Musgrove), still high-spiritedly dreams of romance. Brother Andrey (Eric Dressier), an intellectual weakling, still dabbles with the idea of a Moscow professorship. They all have one thing in common: a desire to go to gay, brilliant, cultured Moscow-a symbol as well as a city...
Though less star-studded than the Ballet Russe of the glittering '30s, the Ballet Theatre's 1942-43 roster contains three first-magnitude dancers: curvesome, Russian-born Irina Baronova; lithe, British-born Alicia Markova (real name Alice Marks); British-born Anton Dolin (real name Patrick Healey...
Bluebeard had three glittering stars: bouncingly glamorous Irina Baronova; svelte, feathery Alicia Markova (born
...Basil is the Ballet Theatre. In its Chicago and Manhattan runs this outfit raised high hopes, but its policies did not suit its backer, Lucia Chase, herself a rich widow, an ambitious dancer. She turned the works over to Hurok, who put in two of his glamor girls (Irina Baronova, Alicia Markova), a new director, conductor and choreographers, all trained in the Russian tradition. When the Ballet Theatre opens in Manhattan next month, its fine U.S. ballet, Billy the Kid, will be missing. Eugene Loring, who designed and danced in Billy, has left the Ballet Theatre. So has its beauteous...
...Darling, it was absolutely chicsy," ecstatically exclaimed ballerina Tatiana Riabouchinska as she left the Advocate's swank party, held in honor of her and her colleagues, Tamara Touvanova and the glamorous, beautiful, and attractive Irina Baronova...