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Shuttling between her Watch Hill retreat, her winter home in Nassau, her chalet in Switzerland, her 15-room Manhattan penthouse, and her studio in Carnegie Hall, she pursues her vision with an all-encompassing passion. Divorced in January from her second husband, Dr. Benjamin Kean, she bought a four-story brick mansion off Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and is renovating it into the Harkness House for Ballet Arts. It will include a workshop and dance school, out of which she plans to form a junior Harkness troupe to tour the small towns...
Still, one can easily see why the main role has attracted so many players. (Kean, the foremost 19th-century Richard, started work on it at 13.) It is a "star" vehicle for virtuosity. Richard is not only an arch-villain; he is also a consummate actor himself, with an instinct for histrionics and theatricality. Like Iago (for which he served as a preliminary study), Richard takes as much delight in the efficacy of his acting techniques as in the evil deeds he commits (which include eleven murders...
Modern dance is almost spiritually opposed to the promulgation of ballet, but Balanchine's good fortune has caused real outrage among classical dancers too. They fear he will use his influence and power to impose his own "American style" on the entire U.S. dance world. Mrs. Rebekah Harkness Kean has just created a new company with a $2,000,000 endowment to resist just that possibility. But long before any grants, the New York City Ballet was the only American company that could be compared to Moscow's Bolshoi, Leningrad's Kirov, London's Royal Ballet...
Into this edgy household comes the perfect scapegoat: an unruly seven-year-old boy from the South named Robert Kean. The son of Dora's sister, Robert has been foisted on the Harmsworths while his mother recovers from her latest illness...
...sophomores, Dick Ames and Bill Kean, will probably share the monumental chore of keeping up with Williams and Gunnoe as the third attackman. Ames, who seems to have fully recovered from a recent knee operation, holds the distinction of being the squad's biggest question mark, but, like Gunnoe, has "looked impressive" to date...