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...Kirkland kept Hillenbrand at the table, speaking with remarkable perception and good humor about her commitment to the fantastical and fiercely competitive world of dance. There, and in a second session at Washington's Watergate Hotel, she answered all questions about her on-and offstage rivalry with Sister Johnna, a dancer herself; her maturing relationship with Choreographer George Balanchine; her feelings about music; the physical breakdown that lost her a starring movie role in The Turning Point; and her new-found artistic maturity. When she discovered that her interviewer was a fellow New Yorker, she also celebrated the Upper...
Gelsey marched on Dec. 29, 1952, in a Bethlehem, Pa., hospital. Her father Jack was a playwright who had scored handsomely as adapter of Tobacco Road for Broadway; her mother Nancy, a onetime actress, had retired from the stage to become Jack's fifth wife. A sister, Johnna, was nearly four when Gelsey was born; she has a brother, Marshall, 16 months younger...
...first of the series of Copley-Plaza concerts will be given in the ball-room of the Copley-Plaza Hotel, Boston, next Monday morning at 11 o'clock. The artists will be Johannes Sembach, Johnna Gadski, of the Metropolitan Opera Company, and Beatrice Harrison, the young and already famous 'cellist. Mr. Sembach, who will sing tenor, and Madame Gadski, prima donna, took part in the production of Siegfried in the Stadium last June. The program includes selections from Schuman, Schubert, Handel, and a duet from Act 1 of Wagner's "Goetterdaemmerung" by Mr. Sembach and Mme. Gadski. Elmer Wilson will...